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n. A quality, as of an experience or a work of art, that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow.

n. The feeling, as of sympathy or pity, so aroused.

n. 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.

n. A writer's attempt to persuade an audience through appeals involving the use of strong emotions not strictly limited to pity.

n. An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.

n. 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.

n. 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.

n. 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.

n. Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.

n. That quality or character, as of a speech, an expression of the countenance, a work of art, etc., which awakens the emotion of pity, compassion, or sympathy; a power or influence that moves or touches the feelings; feeling.

n. Specifically In art, the quality of the personal, ephemeral, emotional, or sensual, as opposed to that, of the ideal, or ethos.

n. Suffering.

n. a style that has the power to evoke feelings

n. a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others

n. a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)

"But in place of Hardy's pathos is a perverse little smile that's blessedly contagious."

ethos   

style    expressive style    fellow-feeling    sympathy    quality   

pathogen    patient    pathetic    antipathy    pathology    sympathy    patience    psychopathy    empathy   

suffering    compassion    lamentableness   

tenderness    sadness    sweetness    earnestness    irony    grandeur    compassion    eloquence    solemnity    regret