Pathos synonyms
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Insincere or grossly sentimental pathos:
A feeling of approval of or agreement with an idea, cause, etc.
Pity is a feeling of sorrow or sympathy for someone or something.
Any specific feeling; any of various complex reactions with both mental and physical manifestations, as love, hate, fear, anger, etc.
The sense of touch:
A thought, opinion, judgment, or attitude, usually the result of careful consideration, but often colored with emotion
Wretchedness; misery.
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.
Deep awareness of the suffering of another accompanied by the wish to relieve it.
sympathetic chord
a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)
happiness (antonym)
Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; "” used especially of language.
joy (antonym)
Intense and especially ecstatic or exultant happiness, or an instance of such feeling.
cheer (antonym)
The definition of cheer is joy and gladness, or anything that is comforting.
The feeling or expression of pity or sorrow.
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
Find another word for pathos. In this page you can discover 19 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for pathos, like: bathos, sympathy, pity, poignancy, emotion, feeling, sentiment, desolation, woe, sadness and tenderness.