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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
anticlimax, bleeding heart, cloyingness, comedown, goo, hearts-and-flowers, heaviness, heaviness of heart, heavy heart, heavyheartedness, maudlinness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, pathos, romanticism, sadheartedness, sadness, sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality, slop, sloppiness, slush, soap opera, sob story, sweetness and light, tearjerker
Dictionary Results for bathos:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
bathos
    n 1: triteness or triviality of style
    2: insincere pathos [syn: mawkishness, bathos]
    3: a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one [syn:
       anticlimax, bathos]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Bathos \Ba"thos\ (b[=a]"th[o^]s), n. [Gr. ba`qos depth, fr.
   baqy`s deep.] (Rhet.)
   A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing
   or speech; anticlimax.
   [1913 Webster] bath towel
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