PATHOS
\pˈe͡ɪθɒs], \pˈeɪθɒs], \p_ˈeɪ_θ_ɒ_s]\
Definitions of PATHOS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow); "the film captured all the pathos of their situation"
By Princeton University
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a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow); "the film captured all the pathos of their situation"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald