BATHOS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bathos mean? 

• BATHOS (noun)
  The noun BATHOS has 3 senses:

1. triteness or triviality of style

2. insincere pathos

3. a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one

  Familiarity information: BATHOS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BATHOS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Triteness or triviality of style

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("bathos" is a kind of...):

expressive style; style (a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Insincere pathos

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

bathos; mawkishness

Hypernyms ("bathos" is a kind of...):

sentimentality (extravagant or affected feeling or emotion)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A change from a serious subject to a disappointing one

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

anticlimax; bathos

Hypernyms ("bathos" is a kind of...):

close; closing; conclusion; end; ending (the last section of a communication)

Holonyms ("bathos" is a part of...):

story (a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events)

 Context examples 

I like you more than I can say; but I'll not sink into a bathos of sentiment: and with this needle of repartee I'll keep you from the edge of the gulf too; and, moreover, maintain by its pungent aid that distance between you and myself most conducive to our real mutual advantage.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)