noun a quality in something which makes you feel pity. Synonym sadness (NOTE: The adjective is pathetic.)
pa´thos
n. [L., from Gr. pa•qos a suffering, passion, fr. , , to suffer; cf. toil, L. pati to suffer, E. patient.] 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; as the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry. “The combination of incident, and the pathos of catastrophe.” T. Warton.
pa´thos
n. 1. 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.
2. Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.
2. Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.
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