meaning of pathos
1. 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.
2. a quality that arouses emotions especially pity or sorrow; "the film captured all the pathos of their
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