pathos
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)
the film captured all the pathos of their situation
Types & categories
- quality hypernym
Related & opposite
- touching derivation
Sense 2 noun
a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others
the blind are too often objects of pity
Types & categories
- fellow feeling hypernym
Related & opposite
- pity derivation
- commiserate derivation
- poor derivation
Sense 3 noun
a style that has the power to evoke feelings
Types & categories
- expressive style hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | touching |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | quality |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | pity |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | commiserate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | poor |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | fellow feeling |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | expressive style |