bathos

Meaning

1. (uncountable, usually) Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
2. (uncountable, usually) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to
3. (uncountable, usually) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:
4. (uncountable, usually) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:
5. (uncountable, usually) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:
6. (uncountable, usually) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:
7. (uncountable, usually) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
8. (uncommon, uncountable, usually) A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.

Synonyms

anticlimax

mawkishness

sentimentality

triteness

Translations

κατάπτωση

χαλάρωση

Bathos

αντικλίμακα

απότομη πτώση ύψους

γελοία κατάπτωση

platitude

mauvais pathos

bathos

valse pathos

sentimentalismo

anticlímax

sentimentalismo

الإسفاف

sensiblería

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbeɪθɒs/

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βάθος (báthos, “depth”). Employed ironically following Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, lampooning various errors in contemporary writers.