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| Main Entry: | pathos |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deep sadness |
| Synonyms: | desolation, emotion, feeling, passion, poignancy, sentiment, pitiableness, pitifulness, plaintiveness, poignance |
| Notes: | bathos is an abrupt, unintended transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace while pathos is a quality that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow |
| Antonyms: | cheer, glee, happiness, joy |
| Main Entry: | heavy heart |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sad heart |
| Synonyms: | aching heart, bathos, bleeding heart, heartache, pathos, agony of mind, broken heart, heaviness of heart |
| Main Entry: | sob story |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hard luck story |
| Synonyms: | pathos, emotional appeal, hardship tale, heartbreaker, human interest, maudlin plea, schmaltz, sentimentalism, tale of woe, tearjerker |
| Main Entry: | poignancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | emotion |
| Synonyms: | feeling, pathos, sadness, sentimentality, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | descent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deterioration |
| Synonyms: | abasement, anticlimax, cadence, comedown, debasement, decadence, decline, degradation, discomfiture, down, downfall, lapse, pathos, slump, downcome |
| Antonyms: | improvement, upgrade |
| Main Entry: | feeling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a state of mind, often strong |
| Synonyms: | action, affection, appreciation, ardor, behavior, capacity, compassion, concern, cultivation, culture, delicacy, discernment, discrimination, emotion, empathy, faculty, fervor, fondness, heat, imagination, impression, intelligence, intensity, intuition, judgment, keenness, passion, pathos, pity, reaction, refinement, sensibility, sensitivity, sentiment, sentimentality, spirit, sympathy, taste, tenderness, understanding, warmth, palpability, sharpness, tangibility |
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