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.

compassion

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.

glee (antonym)

(Uncountable) Joy; merriment; mirth; gaiety; particularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast.

commiseration

The feeling or expression of pity or sorrow.

ruth

Ruth the Moabite, around whom the text centers.

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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, poignancy, bathos, feeling, emotion, sympathy, sentiment, desolation, woe, lyricism and playfulness.

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