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bathos
noun
(ba-thos)
insincere pathos
Synonyms:
mawkishness
,
bathos
noun
(ba-thos)
a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
Synonyms:
anticlimax
,
bathos
noun
(ba-thos)
triteness or triviality of style
Words Related to
bathos
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mawkishness
,
anticlimax
,
maudlinism
,
triteness
,
sentimentality
,
pathos
,
banality
,
sentimentalism
,
melodrama
,
didacticism
,
silliness
,
bombast
,
facetiousness
,
inanity
,
schmaltz
,
pretentiousness
,
absurdity
,
melancholy
,
profundity
,
lugubriousness
,
mundanity
,
hilarity
,
cheesiness
,
cloy
,
buffoonery
,
mushiness
,
slapstick
,
pedantry
,
crudity
,
meaninglessness
,
pomposity
,
frivolity
,
absurdism
,
grandiloquence
,
tawdriness
,
sappiness
,
grand guignol
,
archness
,
inconsequentiality
,
puerility
,
daftness
,
abjection
,
corniness
,
ponderousness
,
pompousness
,
foppery
,
clownishness
,
insipidity
,
shavian
,
mordant
,
journalese
,
whimsy
,
fatuity
,
nabokovian
,
moroseness
,
metafiction
,
inconsequence
,
impassivity
,
misanthropy
,
pastiche
,
staginess
,
grimness
,
poeticism
,
wryness
,
ghastliness
,
wistfulness
,
grotesquerie
,
ennui
,
incomprehensibility
,
fustiness
,
grotesquery
,
mournfulness
,
arioso
,
knowingness
,
artificiality
,
pretension
,
threnody
,
ruefulness
,
salaciousness
,
moralizing
,
farce
,
tautologies
,
ribaldry
,
hokum
,
insipidness
,
lunkheaded
,
crabbiness
,
superciliousness
,
gaucherie
,
stylisation
,
tragicomedy
,
sublimity
,
insubstantiality
,
acerbity
,
jouissance
,
artifice
,
solipsism
,
tunefulness
,
affectless
,
incoherence
,
bathos
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