bathos
[bey-thos, -thaws, -thohs]
noun
a ludicrous descent from the exalted or lofty to the commonplace; anticlimax.
insincere pathos; sentimentality; mawkishness.
triteness or triviality in style.
Origin of bathos
1630–40; < Greek: depth
Synonyms for bathos
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Contemporary Examples of bathos
Rather like the way of life it celebrates, The Radetzky March hinges on trivia and bathos more than any real grand gesture.
Historical Examples of bathos
It was an anti-climax, a bathos, of which St. Augustine is seldom guilty.
My New CurateP.A. Sheehan
There is sometimes, too, a falling off, not far removed from the Bathos.
A Pindarick Ode on PaintingThomas Morrison
One of their favourite blunders is an amazing sort of bathos.
Utopia of Usurers and other EssaysGilbert Keith Chesterton
Outwardly cynical, he was sentimental to the point of bathos.
NarcissusEvelyn Scott
Then will come the crowning event, after which all must necessarily be bathos.
Girls of the True BlueL. T. Meade
bathos
noun
Word Origin for bathos
C18: from Greek: depth, from bathus deep
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