PATHOS Synonyms

• a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow

• a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)

• extreme mental distress

• extreme distress of body or mind

• suffer great pains or distress

• cause emotional anguish or make miserable

• a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering

• the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it

• psychological suffering

• a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)

• extreme physical pain

• the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim

• bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship

• cause mental pain to

• any strong feeling

• understanding and entering into another's feelings

• the experiencing of affective and emotional states

• a vague idea in which some confidence is placed

• the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people

• a physical sensation that you experience

• the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin

• an intuitive understanding of something

• emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being

• the state of being sad

• the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness

• tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion

• a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty

• falsely emotional in a maudlin way

• extravagant or affected feeling or emotion

• an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement

• sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment

• something that causes great unhappiness

• the state of being sad

• feel grief

• an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion

• sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)

• a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other

• a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling

• a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched)

• warm compassionate feelings

• a positive feeling of liking

• a feeling of concern for the welfare of someone (especially someone defenseless)

• an event resulting in great loss and misfortune

• drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity

• a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others

• an expression of sympathy with another's grief

• a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others

• United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948)

• the great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament

• a book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died