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Definition bathos

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (b�thos, �depth�). Employed ironically following Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, lampooning various errors in contemporary writers.

Noun

bathos (uncountable)

1. Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
2. (now uncommon) Depth.
3. (literature, the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to
   1. anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.
   2. banality: unaffectingly clich� or trite treatment of a topic.
   3. immaturity: lack of serious treatment of a topic.
   4. hyperbole: excessiveness
4. (literature, the arts) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
5. (uncommon) A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.

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