Usually means: Evoking emotions through creative expression.
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  1. pathos: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pathos: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pathos: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pathos: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pathos: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pathos, pathos: Wordnik
  7. pathos: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pathos: Wiktionary
  9. pathos: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pathos: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pathos: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Pathos, pathos: Dictionary.com
  13. pathos: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. pathos: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Pathos (film), Pathos (manga), Pathos: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pathos: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pathos: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pathos: Rhymezone
  19. pathos, pathos (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pathos: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. pathos: Free Dictionary
  22. pathos: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. pathos: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. PATHOS: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

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  1. pathos: Encyclopedia

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  1. pathos: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality.
noun:  (rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses emotional appeals to the audience as the main form of persuasion.
noun:  (literature) An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.
noun:  (theology, philosophy) In theology and existentialist ethics following Kierkegaard and Heidegger, a deep and abiding commitment of the heart, as in the notion of "finding your passion" as an important aspect of a fully lived, engaged life.
noun:  Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.

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