Bathos vs. Pathos
Difference Between Bathos and Pathos
Bathosnoun
Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
Pathosnoun
The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality.
Bathosnoun
Depth.
Pathosnoun
(rhetoric) A writer or speaker's attempt to persuade an audience through appeals involving the use of strong emotions such as pity.
Bathosnoun
Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to
Pathosnoun
(literature) An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.
Bathosnoun
anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.
Pathosnoun
In theology and existentialist ethics following Kierkegaard and Heidegger, a deep and abiding commitment of the heart, as in the notion of "finding your passion" as an important aspect of a fully lived, engaged life.
Bathosnoun
banality: unaffectingly cliché or trite treatment of a topic.
Pathosnoun
Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.
Bathosnoun
immaturity: lack of serious treatment of a topic.
Pathosnoun
a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow);
the film captured all the pathos of their situationBathosnoun
hyperbole: excessiveness
Pathosnoun
a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others;
the blind are too often objects of pityBathosnoun
The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
Pathosnoun
a style that has the power to evoke feelings
Bathosnoun
(uncommon) A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.
Bathosnoun
triteness or triviality of style
Bathosnoun
insincere pathos
Bathosnoun
a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
