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発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈbeɪθɒs/
• 韻: -eɪθɒs

名詞

bathos (usually uncountable, plural bathoses)

1. Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
   • 1847, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, page 192:

     I like you more than I can say; but I'll not sink into a bathos of sentiment...

2. (literature, art) A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:
   1. An anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.
   2. A banality: an unaffectingly clichéd or trite treatment of a topic.
   3. Immaturity: a lack of serious treatment of a topic.
   4. A hyperbole: excessiveness.
   • 1727, Alexander Pope, Peri Bathous:

     While a plain and direct Road is pav'd to their ὐψος, or sublime; no Track has been yet chalk'd out to arrive at our βάθος, or profund.

3. (literature, art) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
4. (uncommon) A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.
   • 1814, Thomas Jefferson, Writings, IV.240:

     How meanly has he closed his inflated career! What a sample of the bathos will his history present!

   • 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XXI, in Wuthering Heights‎:

     I know what he suffers now, for instance, exactly: it is merely a beginning of what he shall suffer, though. And he’ll never be able to emerge from his bathos of coarseness and ignorance.

   • 2018, Matthew d'Ancona, “The Tories are a party in crisis, their identity in desperate shape”, in Guardian‎:

     Thus can the ideology of the fringe, the pinstripe mutterings of the nativist few, end up determining the trajectory of an entire nation. This is where bathos meets tragedy.

同意語

• (anticlimax): See anticlimax
• (artistic failure to inspire emotion): narm
• (artistic failure through banality): banality, triteness
• (artistic failure through triviality): immaturity, callowness
• (artistic failure through hyperbole): chewing the scenery, hamminess
• (artistic failure through overdone pathos): sappiness, cheesiness, tweeness, treacliness

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “depth”): See depth
• (antonym(s) of “artistic failure”): pathos
• (antonym(s) of “nadir”): See nadir

派生語

参考

• comic relief

Further reading

• bathos on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “bathos”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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