bathos

Etymology
Borrowed from. Employed ironically following 's Peri Bathous, lampooning various errors in contemporary writers.

Noun

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

Synonyms

 * See anticlimax
 * chewing the scenery, hamminess
 * chewing the scenery, hamminess
 * chewing the scenery, hamminess

Antonyms

 * See depth
 * See nadir
 * See nadir

Translations

 * French:
 * German: Bathos


 * Dutch: valse pathos
 * French: mauvais pathos

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  bathos
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