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pathetic fallacy
noun
(pathetic fallacy)
the ascription of human traits or feelings to inanimate nature (as in cruel sea)
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poetic
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sentimentality
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romanticism
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windiness
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pedantry
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triteness
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objective correlative
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prolixity
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threnody
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blackly
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wordsworthian
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drear
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demandingly
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pedant
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cantankerousness
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dostoevskian
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sunniness
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epiphanic
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ruefulness
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misanthropy
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dusks
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poesy
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max beerbohm
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languor
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unworldliness
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cogitations
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penetratingly
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daftness
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mundaneness
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insipidity
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shivery
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acerbity
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ghastliness
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overfamiliar
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quiddity
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ephemerality
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infelicities
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biliousness
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sententious
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whimsicality
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wishfulness
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dilettantism
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edmund spenser
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everydayness
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numinous
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shavian
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incomprehensibility
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nabokovian
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arioso
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inwardness
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darkling
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poeticism
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facetiousness
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apercus
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priggishness
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metaphors
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dostoevski
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deadness
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dreich
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rebarbative
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archetypally
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journalese
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woolgathering
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pensiveness
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expostulation
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mot juste
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piercingly
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mistiness
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anglophilia
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darkly
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sophoclean
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vapidness
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evanescence
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garrulousness
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wryness
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unnamable
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ingenuousness
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admonitory
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staginess
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pedantic
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commonplaces
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incredulousness
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auden
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sordidness
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trembly
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solecism
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superciliousness
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sesquipedalian
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grand guignol
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terseness
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tautologies
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versification
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banality
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unreason
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