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pathoses

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pa⋅thos

  [pey-thos, -thohs, -thaws]
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–noun
1. 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.
2. pity.
3. Obsolete. suffering.
Origin:
1570–80; < Gk páthos suffering, sensation, akin to páschein to suffer
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