MAWKISHNESS vs BATHOS: NOUN
- Insincere pathos
- Mawkish, sickly, or sickening quality.
- Sickly or qualmish sentimentality.
- The quality or state of being mawkish.
- The property of being mawkish.
- Falsely emotional in a maudlin way
- Triteness or triviality of style
- A change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
- Insincere pathos
- An abrupt, presumably unintended juxtaposition of the exalted and the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect.
- Insincere or grossly sentimental pathos.
- Banality; triteness.
- Depth; lowest part or stage; bottom.
- A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the commonplace or ridiculous in writing or speech; a sinking; anticlimax.
- Synonyms Fustian, Turgidness, etc. See bombast.
- Depth, bottom.
- An abrupt change in style, usually from high to low; an unintended transition of style; an anticlimax.
- Triteness; triviality; banality.
- Overly sentimental and exaggerated pathos.
- An anticlimax.
MAWKISHNESS vs BATHOS: RELATED WORDS
- Cheesiness, Melodramatics, Melodrama, Facetiousness, Schmaltz, Pretentiousness, Staginess, Lugubriousness, Mushiness, Sentimentalism, Pathos, Didacticism, Triteness, Bathos, Sentimentality
- Schmaltz, Inanity, Facetiousness, Bombast, Silliness, Didacticism, Melodrama, Sentimentalism, Banality, Pathos, Sentimentality, Triteness, Maudlinism, Anticlimax, Mawkishness
MAWKISHNESS vs BATHOS: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Ponderousness, Wistfulness, Cloy, Cheesiness, Melodrama, Facetiousness, Schmaltz, Staginess, Lugubriousness, Sentimentalism, Pathos, Didacticism, Triteness, Bathos, Sentimentality
- Absurdity, Schmaltz, Inanity, Facetiousness, Bombast, Silliness, Didacticism, Melodrama, Sentimentalism, Banality, Pathos, Sentimentality, Triteness, Anticlimax, Mawkishness
MAWKISHNESS vs BATHOS: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- N/A
- Neither humor nor bathos is missing; neither pain nor elation.
- Bathos occurs when there is a sudden change in the tone in a scene.
- Heaney rescues this image from bathos by turning it towards linguistics.