pathos : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: pathos	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for pathos
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pathos n a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow); "the film captured all the pathos of their situation" Synonym(s): pathos, poignancy a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity" Synonym(s): commiseration, pity, ruth, pathos a style that has the power to evoke feelings
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pathos \Pa"thos\, n. 1. 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}. 2. Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pathos \Pa"thos\, n. [L., from Gr. pa`qos a suffering, passion, fr. [?], [?], to suffer; cf. [?] 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.