BATHOS

anticlimax, bathos

(noun) a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one

bathos

(noun) triteness or triviality of style

mawkishness, bathos

(noun) insincere pathos

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

bathos (uncountable)

Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.

(now uncommon) Depth.

(literature, the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to

anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.

banality: unaffectingly cliché or trite treatment of a topic.

immaturity: lack of serious treatment of a topic.

hyperbole: excessiveness

(literature, the arts) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.

(uncommon) A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.

Synonyms

• (anticlimax): See anticlimax

• (artistic failure through banality): banality, triteness

• (artistic failure through triviality): immaturity, callowness

• (artistic failure through hyperbole): chewing the scenery, hamminess

• (artistic failure through overdone pathos): sappiness, cheesiness, tweeness, treacliness

Antonyms

• (depth): See depth

• (artistic failure): pathos

• (nadir): See nadir

Anagrams

• TAH-BSO

Source: Wiktionary

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Ba"thos, n. Etym: [Gr. depth, fr. deep.] (Rhet.)

Definition: A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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