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Banality vs Bathos - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between banality and bathos

is that banality is (uncountable) the quality of being banal while bathos is depth, bottom.

banality

English

Noun

(banalities)
  • (uncountable) The quality of being banal.
  • (countable) Something which is banal.

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    bathos

    English

    Noun

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  • Depth, bottom.
  • An abrupt change in style, usually from high to low; an unintended transition of style; an anticlimax.
  • Apparent hyperbole or praise marked by comic dilution or digression.
  • Triteness; triviality; banality.
  • Overly sentimental and exaggerated pathos.
    • I like you more than I can say; but I'll not sink into a bathos of sentiment: Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte - 1847.

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