Bathos vs Maudlin - What's the difference?
bathos | maudlin |
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.
(obsolete, Christianity) The Magdalene; (Mary Magdalene).
* c. 1400 , (trans.), The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ :
* 1653 , (Nicholas Culpeper), The English Physician Enlarged , Folio Society 2007, p. 186:
(obsolete) A Magdalene house; a brothel.
Affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner, especially because of drunkenness.
*around 1900 , O. Henry,
Extravagantly or excessively sentimental; mawkish, self-pitying.
*1961 ,
(obsolete) Tearful, lachrymose.
As nouns the difference between bathos and maudlin
is that bathos is depth, bottom while maudlin is (obsolete|christianity) the magdalene; (mary magdalene).As an adjective maudlin is
affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner, especially because of drunkenness.bathos
English
Noun
(-)- I like you more than I can say; but I'll not sink into a bathos of sentiment: Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte - 1847.
Anagrams
*maudlin
English
Noun
(en noun)- for alle they wor?chipden hir ?ouereynly / as worthy was / but ?pecially Mawdelayne / that wolde neuere departe fro hir.
- Common Maudlin have somewhat long and narrow leaves, snipped about the edges.
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was a drunkard, and had not known it. What he had fondly imagined was a pleasant exhilaration had been maudlin intoxication.
- ''On the rebound one passes into tears and pathos. Maudlin tears. I almost prefer the moments of agony. These are at least clean and honest. But the bath of self-pity, the wallow, the loathsome sticky-sweet pleasure of indulging it — that disgusts me.