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Meanings
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A loanword from Greek, used in literary and rhetorical contexts to refer to an appeal to emotion or a quality that evokes pity or sadness.
His speech had a strong sense of pathos.
Usage patterns
- 〈事〉にペーソスを感じるto feel a sense of pathos in something
I felt a touch of pathos in the film's ending.
- 〈事〉にペーソスが漂うfor something to have an air of pathos
This novel carries a distinctive sense of pathos.
- ペーソスに満ちた〈物〉something filled with pathos
His performance was filled with pathos.