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Definitions for Pathos
[1] the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity, or of sympathetic and kindly sorrow or compassion.
[2] pity.
[3] Obsolete . suffering.
[4] the quality or power, esp in literature or speech, of arousing feelings of pity, sorrow, etc
[5] a feeling of sympathy or pity a stab of pathos
Words related to Pathos
emotion, passion, poignancy, desolation, feeling, sentiment
Words nearby Pathos
pathologize, pathology, pathomimesis, pathomorphism, pathophysiology, pathos, pathosis, pathway, patiala, patience, patient
Origin of Pathos
1570–80; < Greek páthos suffering, sensation, akin to páschein to suffer
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Word origin for Pathos
C17: from Greek: suffering; related to penthos sorrow
Synonyms for Pathos
emotion, passion, poignancy, desolation, feeling, plaintiveness, poignance, sentiment, pitiableness, pitifulness