pathos
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek πάθος (páthos, “suffering”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpeɪˌθɒs/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈpeɪˌθɑs/, /ˈpeɪˌθɔs/, /ˈpeɪˌθoʊs/, /ˈpæˌθoʊs/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]pathos (countable and uncountable, plural pathoses)
- 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.
- Synonym: patheticness
- 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From The Madding Crowd:
- His voice had a genuine pathos now, and his large brown hands perceptibly trembled.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- She could not see, for her whitish eyes were covered with a horny film. Oh, the horrible pathos of the sight! But she could still speak.
- 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.
- (rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses emotional appeals to the audience as the main form of persuasion.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 250:
- It was impossible to endure the jargon and the affected pathos of the squire any longer.
- (literature) An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.
- (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.
- Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.
Quotations
[edit]- For quotations using this term, see Citations:pathos.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]the quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions
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a writer or speaker's attempt to persuade an audience through appeals
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Further reading
[edit]- “pathos”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “pathos”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
pathos on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek πάθος (páthos, “suffering”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]pathos m (uncountable)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
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Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek πάθος (páthos).
Noun
[edit]pathos m (invariable)
- pathos (the quality of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions)
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek πάθος (páthos).
Noun
[edit]pathos m (plural pathos)
- pathos (the quality of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions)
Further reading
[edit]- “pathos”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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