bathos

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noun

Plural noun:

bathoses

1.
(uncountable, usually)Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
2.
(uncountable, usually)(literature, art) A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:
3.
(uncountable, usually)(literature, art) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
4.
(uncommon, uncountable, usually)A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.

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Đồng nghĩa

anticlimaxbanality tritenesschewing the scenery,hamminesscheesinesssappiness treaclinesstweenesscallownessimmaturitynarmanticlimax See anticlimaxartistic failure to inspire emotion narmartistic failure through banality banality, tritenessartistic failure through triviality immaturity, callowness

Trái nghĩa

pathos depth nadirdepth See depthartistic failure pathosnadir See nadir

Cùng gốc / liên quan

batheticcomic relief

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Nguồn gốc từ

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βάθος (depth). Employed ironically following Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, lampooning various errors in contemporary writers.