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Ethos

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The disposition, character, or fundamental values peculiar to a specific person, people, culture, or movement: "They cultivated a subversive alternative ethos” ( Anthony Burgess).

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture, or movement.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The character, sentiment, or disposition of a community or people, considered as a natural endowment; the spirit which actuates manners and customs; also, the characteristic tone or genius of an institution or social organization.

n. The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character -- character as influenced by the ethos (sense 1) of a people -- rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; -- opposed to pathos.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Habitual character and disposition.

n. Specifically In the Gr. fine arts, etc., the inherent quality of a work which produces, or is fitted to produce, a high moral impression, noble, dignified, and universal, as opposed to a work characterized by pathos, or the particular, accidental, passionate, realistic quality.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. (anthropology) the distinctive spirit of a culture or an era

Word Usage

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Antonym

pathos

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

attribute

Cross Reference

logos pathos

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