Tenderness is gentleness, or is feelings of warmth and affection for someone or something, or is a soreness, or is the quality of being able to be easy to cut or chew.
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
Find another word for pathos. In this page you can discover 32 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for pathos, like: pity, emotion, feeling, joy, bathos, humour, sentimentality, poignancy, sympathy, desolation and woe.
The dramatic performance was rich in sad pathos and left the audience with teary eyes.
The pathos of the Children's Crusade of 1212 only nerved him to fresh efforts.
The tender, half-broken tones in which these words were said, the inexpressible pathos of his voice and manner, were never forgotten by those who heard that Wednesday morning speech.
The pathos at the underfunded orphanage left me overwhelmed.
The autobiography in Latin verse, with its playful humour, occasional pathos and sublime self-complacency, was thrown off at the age of eighty-four.