pathos
The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and…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.
» What is all this pathos for?
К чему весь этот пафос?
Meaning
5 senses(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.
подъёмpodʺjóm, воодушевле́ниеvooduševlénije, энтузиа́змentuziázm
a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)
(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.
(countable, uncountable)An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.
па́фосpáfos
a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others
(countable, uncountable)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.
(countable, uncountable)Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.
Examples
11 sentencesWhat is all this pathos for?
ruК чему весь этот пафос?
I was intrigued by the pathos in your work.
I liked pathos in music when I was younger.
It feels like they went off like that for pathos.
When I was younger, I liked a lot of pathos in music.
Translations
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Origin
From Ancient Greek πάθος (páthos, “suffering”).From Ancient Greek πάθος (páthos, “suffering”).
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Forms
plural: pathosesSynonyms
5 synonyms- a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow):poignancy
- a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others:commiserationpityruth
Word family
11 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable