Another word for pathos
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Noun
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- Sympathy and sorrow aroused by the misfortune or suffering of another.
- A matter of regret:
- To feel pity for or on account of:
- Deep awareness of the suffering of another accompanied by the wish to relieve it.
- A feeling of pity or sorrow for the distress of another; commiseration.
- An expression of such feeling:
- Mutual understanding or feeling between people:
- a tendency to express warm, compassionate feelings
- concern for the feelings or welfare of others
- pain or discomfort when an affected area is touched
- Sorrow or grief; misery.
- Misfortune or wretchedness:
- A cause of sorrow or misery; a misfortune:
- The act or an instance of desolating.
- The state of being desolate.
- Devastation; ruin:
- A thought, view, or attitude, especially one based mainly on emotion instead of reason:
- Emotion; feeling:
- Tender or romantic feeling:
- An abrupt, presumably unintended juxtaposition of the exalted and the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect.
- An anticlimax.
- Insincere or grossly sentimental pathos:
- The quality of being poignant
Synonym Study
- Poignancy implies an emotional quality, as sadness or pity, that is keenly felt, often to the point of being sharply painful
- Bathos applies to a false or overdone pathos that is absurd in its effect
- Pathos names that quality, in a real situation or in a literary or artistic work, which evokes sympathy and a sense of sorrow or pity
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