pathos
/PAY-thoss/nouna quality that evokes pity or sadness
“The photo of the empty classroom carried unbearable pathos.”
- Synonyms
- poignancy, sadness, pity
- Antonyms
- bathos
- Root
- path- (feeling)
- Memory hook
- path (feeling): the feeling a work pulls out of you.
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