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pathos

pa.thos \'pa--.tha:s, -.tho.s\ n [Gk, suffering, experience, emotion, fr. 
   paschein to experience, suffer;]akin to Lith kesti to suffer 1: an element 
   in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or c ompassion 2: 
   an emotion of sympathetic pity