"bathos" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈbeɪθɒs/ [UK] Forms: bathoses [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪθɒs Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek βάθος (báthos, “depth”). Employed ironically following Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, lampooning various errors in contemporary writers. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|grc|βάθος||depth}} Ancient Greek βάθος (báthos, “depth”) Head templates: {{en-noun|-|es}} bathos (usually uncountable, plural bathoses)
  1. Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos. Tags: uncountable, usually Synonyms (artistic failure through overdone pathos): sappiness, cheesiness, tweeness, treacliness Translations (overdone pathos): valse pathos (Dutch), mauvais pathos (French)
    Sense id: en-bathos-en-noun-XJZ6vR1U Disambiguation of 'artistic failure through overdone pathos': 17 5 13 13 13 13 13 10 4 Disambiguation of 'overdone pathos': 42 11 8 7 7 8 6 6 5
  2. (now uncommon) Depth. Tags: uncommon, uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-bathos-en-noun-ecOm2Xh3
  3. (literature, the arts) 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.
    Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Literature Synonyms (anticlimax): anticlimax
    Sense id: en-bathos-en-noun-5mNC8hxx Topics: literature, media, publishing Disambiguation of 'anticlimax': 5 15 59 4 4 4 4 2 3
  4. (literature, the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:
    banality: unaffectingly clichéd or trite treatment of a topic.
    Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Literature
    Sense id: en-bathos-en-noun--d-t0bAB Topics: literature, media, publishing
  5. (literature, the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:
    immaturity: lack of serious treatment of a topic.
    Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Literature
    Sense id: en-bathos-en-noun-i9vS4CqH Topics: literature, media, publishing
  6. (literature, the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:
    hyperbole: excessiveness
    Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Literature Synonyms (artistic failure through hyperbole): chewing the scenery, hamminess
    Sense id: en-bathos-en-noun-ixjFN3B- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 11 6 6 7 26 6 12 9 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 13 3 4 5 5 50 4 9 7 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 17 4 5 5 5 34 5 19 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 22 3 3 4 4 41 3 14 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 14 3 6 6 7 36 6 11 10 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 14 5 6 6 7 35 6 10 11 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 13 3 6 6 7 39 6 10 9 Topics: literature, media, publishing Disambiguation of 'artistic failure through hyperbole': 2 2 15 15 15 20 15 12 3
  7. (literature, the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to: Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Literature
    Sense id: en-bathos-en-noun-v~6L9~hu Topics: literature, media, publishing
  8. (literature, the arts) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Literature
    Sense id: en-bathos-en-noun-58dN~eWV Topics: literature, media, publishing
  9. (uncommon) A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career. Tags: uncommon, uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-bathos-en-noun--tgeIW7z
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms (artistic failure through banality): banality, triteness Synonyms (artistic failure through triviality): immaturity, callowness Derived forms: bathetic Related terms: comic relief Translations (unintentional failure at artistic effect): bathos (French), Bathos (German)
Disambiguation of 'artistic failure through banality': 1 2 16 16 16 16 16 12 4 Disambiguation of 'artistic failure through triviality': 1 2 16 16 16 16 16 12 4 Disambiguation of 'unintentional failure at artistic effect': 1 2 15 15 15 15 15 17 3

Inflected forms

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          "text": "How meanly has he closed his inflated career! What a sample of the bathos will his history present!",
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          "ref": "1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XXI, in Wuthering Heights:",
          "text": "I know what he suffers now, for instance, exactly: it is merely a beginning of what he shall suffer, though. And he’ll never be able to emerge from his bathos of coarseness and ignorance.",
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          "ref": "2018, Matthew d'Ancona, “The Tories are a party in crisis, their identity in desperate shape”, in Guardian:",
          "text": "Thus can the ideology of the fringe, the pinstripe mutterings of the nativist few, end up determining the trajectory of an entire nation. This is where bathos meets tragedy.",
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      "ipa": "/ˈbeɪθɒs/",
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      "sense": "anticlimax",
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      "sense": "artistic failure through banality",
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      "sense": "artistic failure through banality",
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      "sense": "artistic failure through triviality",
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      "sense": "artistic failure through triviality",
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      "sense": "artistic failure through hyperbole",
      "word": "chewing the scenery, hamminess"
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      "sense": "artistic failure through overdone pathos",
      "word": "sappiness"
    },
    {
      "sense": "artistic failure through overdone pathos",
      "word": "cheesiness"
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      "sense": "artistic failure through overdone pathos",
      "word": "tweeness"
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      "sense": "artistic failure through overdone pathos",
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      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "unintentional failure at artistic effect",
      "word": "bathos"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "unintentional failure at artistic effect",
      "word": "Bathos"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "overdone pathos",
      "word": "valse pathos"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "overdone pathos",
      "word": "mauvais pathos"
    }
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    "Alexander Pope"
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}

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