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the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion.
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Obsolete. suffering.
Origin:
1570–80; < Greek páthos suffering, sensation, akin to páschein to suffer
1570–80; < Greek páthos suffering, sensation, akin to páschein to suffer
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Pathos
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- The ensuing confrontation is at once bleakly funny and ridden with pathos.
- But the literary reader of our day cannot tolerate pure pathos.
- The final scene was an odd mixture of chaos and pathos.
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pathos
"quality that arouses pity or sorrow," 1668, from Gk. pathos "suffering, feeling, emotion," lit. "what befalls one," related to paskhein "to suffer," and penthos "grief, sorrow;" from PIE base *kwenth- "to suffer, endure" (cf. O.Ir. cessaim, Lith. kenciu "suffer").
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