3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pathos \Pa"thos\, n.
1. The quality or character of those emotions, traits, or
experiences which are personal, and therefore restricted
and evanescent; transitory and idiosyncratic dispositions
or feelings as distinguished from those which are
universal and deep-seated in character; -- opposed to
{ethos}.
2. Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pathos \Pa"thos\, n. [L., from Gr pa`qos a suffering, passion,
fr ?, ?, to suffer; cf ? toil, L. pati to suffer, E.
patient.]
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.
The combination of incident, and the pathos of
catastrophe. --T. Warton.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
pathos
n 1: a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow);
"the film captured all the pathos of their situation"
[syn: {poignancy}]
2: a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of
others "the blind are too often objects of pity" [syn: {commiseration},
{pity}, {ruth}]
3: a style that has the power to evoke feelings
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