pathos
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noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality.
20 August 2018, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett in The Guardian, Young women are smashing it at Edinburgh as the #MeToo legacy kicks in 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.
Đồng nghĩa: patheticness
- 2.
(countable, rhetoric, uncountable)A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses emotional appeals to the audience as the main form of persuasion.
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)(literature) An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.
- 4.
(countable, uncountable)(theology, philosophy) 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.
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(countable, uncountable)Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.
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From grc πάθος suffering.