What is the difference between Bathos and Pathos?

What is the difference between Bathos and Pathos? :


Bathos :

( 1 ) Sudden change in writing or speech from what is deeply moving or important to what is foolish or trivial – anticlimax

His writings are almost always full of bathos.



Pathos :

( 1 ) Quality especially in speech, writing, acting, etc… that causes a feeling of pity or sadness

They have eyes full of pathos.

That was a scene of real pathos.











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