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bathos

n.

melodrama, maudlinness, triteness; see pathos, sentimentality. See syn. study at pathos.

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Another word for bathos

noun

The quality or condition of being affectedly or overly emotional:

maudlinism, mawkishness, sentimentalism, sentimentality. (Informal) mush, mushiness, schmaltz, schmaltziness, sloppiness. (Slang) sappiness. See feelings

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

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