pathos — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

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.

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   Synonyme

   patheticness

   Beispiele

   His voice had a genuine pathos now, and his large brown hands perceptibly trembled.

   She could not see, for her whitish eyes were covered with a horny film. Oh, the horrible pathos of the sight! But she could still speak.

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   20 August 2018, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett in The Guardian, Young women are smashing it at Edinburgh as the #MeToo legacy kicks in Pritchard-McLean’s show is perfectly constructed, and at times deeply moving to the point where some audience members were near tears, yet the pathos is undercut by true belly laughs – but don’t trust me, read the reviews.

2. A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses emotional appeals to the audience as the main form of persuasion.

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   It was impossible to endure the jargon and the affected pathos of the squire any longer.

3. An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.

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4. 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.

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5. Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.

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Substantiv

1. a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)

   Synonyme

   poignancy

   Oberbegriffe

   quality

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   the film captured all the pathos of their situation

2. a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others

   Synonyme

   commiserationpityruth

   Oberbegriffe

   sympathyfellow feeling

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   the blind are too often objects of pity

3. a style that has the power to evoke feelings

   Oberbegriffe

   expressive stylestyle