Category:Pathos

Pa"thos, n. Etym: [l., from gr. pati to suffer, e. patient.]

Defn: that quality or property of anything which touches the feelings Or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender Emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of Feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a Picture, of a poem, or of a cry. The combination of incident, and the pathos of catastrophe. T. Warton.