- (n.) The quality or character of those emotions, traits or experiences which are personal, and therefore restricted and evanescent; transitory and idiosyncratic dispositions or feelings as distinguished from those which are universal and deep-seated in character; -- opposed to ethos.
- (n.) Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.
- (n.) That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially, that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem or of a cry.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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