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Bathos

Noun

Définitions

1.NounOverdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
2.NounA risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to: An anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low. A banality: an unaffectingly clichéd or trite treatment of a topic. Immaturity: a lack of serious treatment of a topic. A hyperbole: excessiveness.
3.NounAn anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.
4.NounA banality: an unaffectingly clichéd or trite treatment of a topic.
5.NounImmaturity: a lack of serious treatment of a topic.
6.NounA hyperbole: excessiveness.
7.NounThe ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
8.NounA nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.
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