Crossword clues for pathos
pathos
- Ways to get round old feeling of pity
- Ways to conceal old quality arousing pity
- Ways to adopt old quality arousing pity
- Sorrow, of course, very uplifting
- Nothing in routes that arouses pity
- Hot spa
- Literary style arousing feelings of sorrow and sympathy
- Tragedy of trail map-making body
- Poignant quality
- Feeling of sympathy
- Feeling of compassion
- Purple prose quality
- Passionate appeal
- Cause of sympathy
- Tragic quality
- Rhetoric class concept
- Quality that arouses pity
- Quality that arouses emotion
- “Irony takes nothing away from ___”: Flaubert
- Compassion-evoking quality
- Emotion of pity
- Sympathetic pity
- Feeling of pity
- Tear-jerking sentiment
- Feeling evoked in drama
- Pity-evoking quality
- Emotional appeal
- Sympathy
- A quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)
- A feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others
- A style that has the power to evoke feelings
- Sad quality
- Literary quality evoking pity
- Quality that evokes pity
- Quality that arouses sympathy
- Quality evoking sadness
- Ways to secure love in a pitiable state
- Ways to secure love that inspires pity
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pathos \Pa"thos\ (p[=a]"th[o^]s), n. [L., from Gr. pa`qos a suffering, passion, fr. paqei^n, pas`chein, to suffer; cf. po`nos 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.
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.
Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"quality that arouses pity or sorrow," 1660s, from Greek pathos "suffering, feeling, emotion, calamity," literally "what befalls one," related to paskhein "to suffer," and penthos "grief, sorrow;" from PIE root *kwent(h)- "to suffer, endure" (cognates: Old Irish cessaim "I suffer," Lithuanian kenčiu "to suffer," pakanta "patience").
Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality. 2 (context rhetoric English) A writer or speaker's attempt to persuade an audience through appeals involving the use of strong emotions such as pity. 3 (context literature English) An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character. 4 (context theology philosophy English) In theology and existentialist ethics following Kierkegaard and Heidegger, a deep and abiding commitment of the heart, as in the notion of "finding your passion" as an important aspect of a fully lived, engaged life. 5 suffering; the endure of active stress or affliction.
WordNet
n. a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow); "the film captured all the pathos of their situation" [syn: poignancy]
a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity" [syn: commiseration, pity, ruth]
a style that has the power to evoke feelings
Wikipedia
Pathos (, ; plural: pathea; , for " suffering" or " experience;" adjectival form: 'pathetic' from ) represents an appeal to the emotions of the audience, and elicits feelings that already reside in them. Pathos is a communication technique used most often in rhetoric (where it is considered one of the three modes of persuasion, alongside ethos and logos), and in literature, film and other narrative art.
Emotional appeal can be accomplished in a multitude of ways:
- by a metaphor or storytelling, common as a hook,
- by passion in the delivery of the speech or writing, as determined by the audience.
- Personal anecdote
Pathos is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Mika Sadahiro. It is licensed in North America by Digital Manga Publishing, which released the first volume on July 22, 2008, and the second on September 23, 2008.
Usage examples of "pathos".
The Marches escaped from it all with sighs and groans of relief, and before they drove off to see the great fountain of the Orangeries, they dedicated a moment of pathos to the Temple of Friendship which Frederick built in memory of unhappy Wilhelmina of Beyreuth, the sister he loved in the common sorrow of their wretched home, and neglected when he came to his kingdom.
And Hall, usually so merry, could outfoot them all when he once got started on the cosmic pathos of religion and the gibbering anthropomorphisms of those who loved not to die.
Don Juans are haunted by the pathos of imitation and the consciousness of living a parodistic derivative of a once charismatic identity.
Bret Harte in verse and story touched the parallels of tragedy and of comedy, of pathos, of bathos, and of humor, which love of life and lust of gold opened up amid the unapprehended grandeurs and the coveted treasures of primeval nature.
But the Azerbaijani man sighed and made a comment that in its simplicity and precision of vocal gesture seemed both to reprise my thoughts and to invest them with the pathos common to all those disoriented by the test of life.
Cormac, while possessing the true Gaelic antipathy for his Cymric kin in general, sensed the pathos and valor of this brave, vain struggle, and even Wulfhere, looking into the far-seeing eyes of the British king, felt a trifle awed.
Laurette would sometimes seat herself upon a stile or a fragment of rock, and taking her lute, which she knew how to touch with exquisite pathos, would play some charming air which she accompanied with her voice, till the soul of Enrico was lost in an extasy of delight, from which he was reluctantly awakened.
Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean-stream, the picture that follows of the Norse-pilot mooring his boat under the lee of the monster is completed in a line that attunes the mind once more to all the pathos and gloom of those infernal deeps: while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays.
This introduction to the third act recalls the introduction to the first, which also begins with the hymnlike phrase, and sets the key-note of pathos which is sounded at every dramatic climax, though pages of hurdy-gurdy tune and unmeaning music intervene.
The other two Iliadic armings are those of Patroclus, full of pathos, and of Achilles, full of wrath, but also of foreboding, for it is on this occasion that the horse Xanthos prophesies his coming death.
Words that are not and can never be words are sought by Lucien here through what he guesses to be the maxillofacial movements of speech, and there is a childlike pathos to the movements that perhaps the rigid-grinned A.
It is true that the humour of Micawber is good literature and that the pathos of little Nell is bad.
The third act corresponds to the pathos and peripety of the traditional tragic form.
In looking over those very dissimilar collections it is not difficult to discover that the songs which he wrote for the more stately work, while they are more polished and elegant than those which he contributed to the less pretending one, are at the same time less happy in their humour and less simple in their pathos.
For my part, I know no cry that paints pain with surer pathos than a passage now to be quoted.