a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)
The film captured all the pathos of their situation.
source: WordNet 3.0
a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others
The blind are too often objects of pity.
source: WordNet 3.0
a style that has the power to evoke feelings
source: WordNet 3.0
That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., 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.
source: Webster 1913
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.
