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pathos

pathosnoun

pathoi

Translations

The speech was filled with pathos, moving the audience to tears.

Речь была наполнена пафосом, что довело аудиторию до слез.

Definitions

A quality that evokes pity, sadness, or sympathy.

The pathos of the movie's ending left the audience in tears.

An emotional appeal used in rhetoric to persuade an audience by eliciting feelings such as pity or sorrow.

The speaker relied heavily on pathos to convince the crowd of the urgency of the cause.

Synonyms

emotional appeal

tragic quality