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Bathos vs Mockery - What's the difference?

bathos | mockery |

As nouns the difference between bathos and mockery

is that bathos is depth, bottom while mockery is the action of mocking; ridicule, derision.

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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    mockery

    English

    Noun

    (mockeries)
  • The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.
  • Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.
  • (obsolete) Something insultingly imitative; an offensively futile action, gesture etc.
  • Mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty, a ridiculous simulacrum.
    • The defendant wasn't allowed to speak at his own trial - it was a mockery of justice.

    Usage notes

    * We often use make a mockery' of someone or something, meaning to ' mock them. See also

    Synonyms

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