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Pathos is defined as a feeling of sympathy or sorrow.

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

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noun

Rare suffering
the quality in something experienced or observed which arouses feelings of pity, sorrow, sympathy, or compassion
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

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noun

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

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Origin: Greek, suffering; see k^went(h)- in Indo-European roots

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