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bathos Definition


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bathos
noun
    1. In speech or writing: a sudden descent from very important, serious or beautiful ideas to very ordinary or trivial ones.
Etymology: 18c in this sense: Greek, meaning ‘depth'.

Info:
    A word sometimes confused with this one is pathos.


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