Bathos

  • 21Bathos (Begriffsklärung) — Bathos (griechisch βάθος „Tiefe“) bezeichnet: die Kontrastwirkung von Gehobenem und Niederem als literarisches Stilmittel, siehe Bathos in der Antike eine Schlucht zwischen Trapezus und Basilis in Arkadien, an der ein Erdfeuer brannte, siehe …

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  • 22Bathos (album) — Infobox Album Name = Bathos Type = studio Artist = Aarni Released = November 17, 2004 Recorded = 2004 at Doominvalley Studios Genre = Avant garde metal, doom metal, folk metal Length = 65:08 Label = Firedoom Music Producer = Aarni Reviews = Last… …

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  • 23bathos — noun Etymology: Greek, literally, depth Date: 1727 1. a. the sudden appearance of the commonplace in otherwise elevated matter or style b. anticlimax 2. exceptional commonplaceness …

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  • 24bathos — Synonyms and related words: anticlimax, bleeding heart, cloyingness, comedown, goo, hearts and flowers, heaviness, heaviness of heart, heavy heart, heavyheartedness, maudlinness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, namby pamby, namby pambyism, namby… …

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  • 25BATHOS —    an anti climax, being a sudden descent from the sublime to the commonplace …

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  • 26bathos — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. sentimentality; anticlimax. See feeling, wit. Ant., dispassion. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. melodrama, maudlinness, triteness; see pathos , sentimentality . See Synonym Study at pathos . III (Roget s 3… …

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  • 27bathos — ba|thos [ˈbeıθɔs US θa:s] n [U] formal [Date: 1700 1800; : Greek; Origin: depth , from bathys deep ] in writing, a play etc, a sudden change from a subject that is beautiful, moral, or serious to something that is ordinary, silly, or not… …

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  • 28bathos — ba|thos [ beı,θas ] noun uncount LINGUISTICS a sudden change in speech or writing from a serious or important subject to one that is silly or ordinary …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 29bathos — ba·thos || beɪθɒs n. melodrama, absurdity (in writing or speech) …

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  • 30bathos —    The disappointment resulting from insincere or grossly sentimental attempts to elicit sympathy or pity. Banality; triteness …

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