Bathos Synonyms

bāthŏs, -thôs
The quality or condition of being affectedly or overly emotional
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. sentimentality
  2. mawkishness
  3. melodrama
  4. maudlinism
  5. sentimentalism
  6. maudlinness
  7. mush
  8. anticlimax
  9. mushiness
  10. schmaltz
  11. schmaltziness
  12. triteness
  13. sloppiness
  14. sappiness
  15. cloyingness
  16. heavyheartedness
  17. namby-pambyism
  18. namby-pambyness
  19. oversentimentality

Bathos Sentence Examples

  • In the Bathos he was classed with the parrots and the tortoises.

  • Though Wagner cannot as yet be confidently credited with a satiric intention in his bathos, the fact remains that all the Rossinian passages are associated with the character of Daland, so as to express his vulgar delight at the prospect of finding a rich son-in-law in the mysterious Dutch seaman.

  • The study of the great models of the past serves to show how these masters achieved the truly sublime without falling victim to bathos.