From en.wiktionary.org:
[Pathos]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Etymology
From [en].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[~]
1. The quality or property of anything which touches the feeling s or excites emotion s and passion s, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity , sorrow , and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1874 | author=Thomas Hardy | title=Far From The Madding Crowd
|passage=His voice had a genuine PATHOS now, and his large brown hands
perceptibly trembled.}}
1. * [passage=She could not see, for her whitish eyes were covered with a horny film. Oh, the horrible PATHOS of the sight! But she could still speak.]
2. * 20 AUGUST 2018 , Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett in _The Guardian_ , _Young women are smashing it at Edinburgh as the #MeToo legacy kicks in (see https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/20/me-too-edinburgh-festival-comedy-young-women) _
3. *: Pritchard-McLean’s show is perfectly constructed, and at times deeply moving to the point where some audience members were near tears, yet the PATHOS is undercut by true belly laughs – but don’t trust me, read the reviews.
4. [en] A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses emotional appeals to the audience as the main form of persuasion.
5. * [1=en]
6. [en] An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.
7. [en] In theology and existentialist ethics following [Kierkegaard] and [Heidegger] , a deep and abiding commitment of the heart, as in the notion of "finding your passion" as an important aspect of a fully lived, engaged life.
8. Suffering ; the enduring of active stress or affliction .
**** Quotations
- [en]
**** Related terms
{{col|en |antipathy |apathy |empathy |pathetic |pathic |pathology |pathogen
|psychopathy |sympathy }}
**** Translations
[the quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites
emotions]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Greek: [el]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Spanish: [es]
[trans-bottom]
[a writer or speaker's attempt to persuade an audience through appeals]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Greek: [el]
- Russian: [ru]
- Swedish: [sv]
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- Hebrew: [he]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
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**** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
- [pedia]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
** Dutch
*** Etymology
From [nl].
*** Pronunciation
- [nl]
*** Noun
[m]
1. [nl] [en]
**** Related terms
{{col|nl |bathos |pathetiek |pathetisch }}
*** Further reading
- [lang=nl]
** Portuguese
*** Alternative forms
- [pt]
*** Etymology
From [pt].
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en] [the quality of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions]
** Spanish
*** Etymology
[es].
*** Noun
[m]
1. [en] [the quality of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions]
*** Further reading
- [R:es:DRAE]