pathos
noun
1 pathos
A quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow):
— The film captured all the pathos of their situation.
synonym: poignancy.
Roget 821:
feeling;
suffering
etc.
v.;
endurance,
tolerance,
sufferance,
supportance†,
experience,
response;
sympathy
etc.
(love)
897;
impression,
inspiration,
affection,
sensation,
emotion,
pathos,
deep sense.
warmth,
glow,
unction,
gusto,
vehemence;
fervor,
fervency;
heartiness,
cordiality;
earnestness,
eagerness;
empressement [Fr.],
gush,
ardor,
zeal,
passion,
enthusiasm,
verve,
furore†,
fanaticism;
excitation of feeling
etc.
824;
fullness of the heart
etc.
(disposition)
820;
passion
etc.
(state of excitability)
825;
ecstasy
etc.
(pleasure)
827.
blush,
suffusion,
flush;
hectic;
tingling,
thrill,
turn,
shock;
agitation
etc.
(irregular motion)
315;
quiver,
heaving,
flutter,
flurry,
fluster,
twitter,
tremor;
throb,
throbbing;
pulsation,
palpitation,
panting;
trepidation,
perturbation;
ruffle,
hurry of spirits,
pother,
stew,
ferment;
state of excitement.
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Polish: górność, koturnowość, koturn, patos, patetyczność
2 pathos
A feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others.
synonyms: commiseration, pity, ruth.
Dutch: deernis, medelijden, jammer
3 pathos
A style that has the power to evoke feelings.
Moby thesaurus: bathos, benevolence, bitterness, bleakness, caring, cheerlessness, chord, clemency, comfortlessness, commiseration, compassion, concern, condolence, depression, discomfort, dismalness, distress, distressfulness, dreariness, echo, empathy, favor, feeling, fellow feeling, forbearance, forgiveness, grace, grief, grievousness, heaviness, heaviness of heart, heavy heart, heavyheartedness, humanity, identification, involvement, joylessness, kindness, lamentability, lamentation, leniency, mercy, mitigation, mournfulness, pain, painfulness, pardon, pitiability, pitiableness, pitifulness, pity, poignancy, quarter, regrettableness, relating, relief, reprieve, response, responsiveness, ruth, sadheartedness, sadness, self-pity, sharing, sharpness, sorrowfulness, sympathetic chord, sympathetic response, sympathy, vibes, vibrations, woebegoneness, woefulness ... show more.
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