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Bathos
Meaning
Noun
●
Overdone or
treacly
attempts
to
inspire
pathos.
●
Depth.
●
In Literature:
Risible
failure
on the part of a
work of art
to
properly
affect
its
audience
,
particularly
owing
to:
anticlimax: an
abrupt
transition
in style
or
subject
from high to low.
banality: unaffectingly
clichéd
or
trite
treatment of a topic.
immaturity:
lack
of
serious
treatment of a topic.
hyperbole: excessiveness
Risible
failure
on the part of a
work of art
to
properly
affect
its
audience
,
particularly
owing
to
●
In Literature:
The
ironic
use of such
failure
for
satiric
or
humorous
effect.
●
A
nadir
, a low point
particularly
in
one's
career.
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Origin
bathos
English
βάθος
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Sourced from
Etym
Synonyms
Sappiness
Cheesiness
Tweeness
Treacliness
Anticlimax
Hamminess
Banality
Triteness
Immaturity
Callowness
Depth
Triviality
Chewing The Scenery
Antonyms
Depth
Pathos
Nadir
Apex
Related
Melodrama
Surrealism
Slapstick
Poignancy
Profundity
Theatricality
Sentimentality
Absurdism
Mise En Scene
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