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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
pathos
n 1: a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or
sorrow); "the film captured all the pathos of their
situation" [syn: pathos, poignancy]
2: a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of
others; "the blind are too often objects of pity" [syn:
commiseration, pity, ruth, pathos]
3: a style that has the power to evoke feelings
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Pathos \Pa"thos\ (p[=a]"th[o^]s), n. [L., from Gr. pa`qos a
suffering, passion, fr. paqei^n, pas`chein, to suffer; cf.
po`nos toil, L. pati to suffer, E. patient.]
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.
[1913 Webster]
The combination of incident, and the pathos of
catastrophe. --T. Warton.
[1913 Webster]
1. 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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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Thesaurus Results for pathos:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
bathos, benevolence, bitterness, bleakness, caring, cheerlessness, chord, clemency, comfortlessness, commiseration, compassion, concern, condolence, depression, discomfort, dismalness, distress, distressfulness, dreariness, echo, empathy, favor, feeling, fellow feeling, forbearance, forgiveness, grace, grief, grievousness, heaviness, heaviness of heart, heavy heart, heavyheartedness, humanity, identification, involvement, joylessness, kindness, lamentability, lamentation, leniency, mercy, mitigation, mournfulness, pain, painfulness, pardon, pitiability, pitiableness, pitifulness, pity, poignancy, quarter, regrettableness, relating, relief, reprieve, response, responsiveness, ruth, sadheartedness, sadness, self-pity, sharing, sharpness, sorrowfulness, sympathetic chord, sympathetic response, sympathy, vibes, vibrations, woebegoneness, woefulness |
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Common Misspellings > |
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