Bathos vs. Pathos
Bathosnoun
Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
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Depth.
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Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to
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anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.
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banality: unaffectingly cliché or trite treatment of a topic.
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immaturity: lack of serious treatment of a topic.
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hyperbole: excessiveness
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The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
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(uncommon) A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.
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A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.
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triteness or triviality of style
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insincere pathos
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a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
Bathos
Bathos (UK: BAY-thoss; Greek: βάθος, lit. ) is a literary term, first used in this sense in Alexander Pope's 1727 essay , to describe an amusingly failed attempt at presenting artistic greatness.
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.
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(rhetoric) A writer or speaker's attempt to persuade an audience through appeals involving the use of strong emotions such as pity.
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(literature) An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.
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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.
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Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.
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That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry.
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The quality or character of those emotions, traits, or experiences which are personal, and therefore restricted and evanescent; transitory and idiosyncratic dispositions or feelings as distinguished from those which are universal and deep-seated in character; - opposed to ethos.
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Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.
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a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow);
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a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others;
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a style that has the power to evoke feelings
Pathosnoun
a quality that evokes pity or sadness
Pathos
Pathos (, US: ; plural: pathea or pathê; Greek: πάθος, for or or or . In medicine it refers to a , or "complaint.
