па́фос — meaning in English
Pafos
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English meaning
- pathos noun A quality in something that stirs feelings of pity or sadness.
Senses
па́фос is used for these senses in English:
- Paphos A city in Cyprus, known in antiquity as the birthplace of Aphrodite.
- pathos The 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.
- pathos (rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses emotional appeals to the audience as the main form of persuasion.
pathos — full definition
- noun A quality in something that stirs feelings of pity or sadness.
- noun In rhetoric, an appeal to the audience's emotions to persuade them.
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