Synonyms for bathos
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Cheesiness — overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos
cheesiness, sappiness, tweeness, treacliness, narm slang
2. Immaturity
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
- n. 2
A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to
- n. 3
A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to: An anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.
Related words
- Word family
- bathetic
Forms
- Plural
- bathoses → tweenesses, narms, immaturities, callownesses…
Example sentences
- immaturity Mary thinks the breakup was due to Tom's immaturity.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| bathos | falling | |
| cheesiness | steady | |
| sappiness | steady | |
| immaturity | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- narm
- 8 letters
- banality4, tweeness
- 9 letters
- sappiness, triteness
- 10 letters
- immaturity5, triviality5, cheesiness, callowness
- 11 letters
- mawkishness, treacliness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (banality4 = 4 syllables).