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bathos | bathetic |

As a noun bathos

is depth, bottom.

As an adjective bathetic is

characterized by or pertaining to bathos .

bathos

English

Noun

(-)
  • 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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    bathetic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characterized by or pertaining to bathos .
  • * 1995 , Rupert D. V. Glasgow, Madness, Masks, and Laughter: An Essay on Comedy , p. 214.
    • The fall is indeed the archetypal bathetic motion, a sudden, surprising downward rush degrading the pretensions of posture and man's bipedal pride.