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Definition of 'bathos'

English

Noun

(-)
  • Depth, bottom.
  • An abrupt change in style, usually from high to low; an unintended transition of style; an anticlimax.
  • Apparent hyperbole or praise marked by comic dilution or digression.
  • Triteness; triviality; banality.
  • Overly sentimental and exaggerated pathos.
  • I like you more than I can say; but I'll not sink into a bathos of sentiment: Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte - 1847.

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