pathos

Pathos is defined as a feeling of sympathy or sorrow.

(noun)

An example of pathos is someone feeling bad for a friend who's dog has died.

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See pathos in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

  1. Rare suffering
  2. the quality in something experienced or observed which arouses feelings of pity, sorrow, sympathy, or compassion
  3. the feeling aroused

Origin: Gr pathos, suffering, disease, feeling, akin to pathein, paschein, to suffer, feel < IE base *kwenth-, to suffer, endure > OIr cessaim, I suffer

See pathos in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
  1. A quality, as of an experience or a work of art, that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow.
  2. The feeling, as of sympathy or pity, so aroused.

Origin:

Origin: Greek, suffering; see kwent(h)- in Indo-European roots

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