pathos

Word Type

n.

pathos Meaning Definition

That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry.

Synonyms for pathos

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

Synonym Search Links for pathos

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