Bathos vs. Pathos

Bathos vs. Pathos — Is There a Difference?
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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.

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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 situation
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Bathosnoun

hyperbole: excessiveness

Pathosnoun

a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others;

the blind are too often objects of pity

Bathosnoun

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