Synonyms of the word

pathos

• n. The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially…
• n. (rhetoric) A writer or speaker's attempt to persuade an audience through appeals involving the use of…
• n. (literature) An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.
• n. (theology, philosophy) In theology and existentialist ethics following Kierkegaard and Heidegger, a deep…
• n. Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.

commiseration

• n. The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion.

pity

• n. (uncountable) A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.
• n. (countable) Something regrettable.
• n. (obsolete) Piety.
• v. (transitive) To feel pity for (someone or something).
• v. (transitive, now regional) To make (someone) feel pity; to provoke the sympathy or compassion of.
• interj. Short form of what a pity.

poignancy

• n. The quality of being poignant.

quality

• n. (uncountable) Level of excellence.
• n. (countable) A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person.
• n. (archaic) High social position. (See also the quality.).
• n. (uncountable) The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed…
• n. (thermodynamics) In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total…
• n. (emergency medicine, countable) The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI…
• adj. Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.

ruth

• n. (archaic) Sorrow for the misery of another; pity, compassion; mercy.
• n. (now rare) Repentance; regret; remorse.
• n. (obsolete) Sorrow; misery; distress. 13th-19th c.
• n. (obsolete) Something which causes regret or sorrow; a pitiful sight.

style

• n. A manner of doing or presenting things, especially a fashionable one.
• n. Flair; grace; fashionable skill.
• n. (botany) The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.
• n. A traditional or legal term preceding a reference to a person who holds a title or post.
• n. A traditional or legal term used to address a person who holds a title or post.
• n. (nonstandard) A stylus.
• n. (obsolete) A pen; an author's pen.
• n. A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
• n. A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
• n. A long, slender, bristle-like process.
• n. The pin, or gnomon, of a sundial, the shadow of which indicates the hour.
• n. (computing) A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as bold or italic.
• v. (transitive) To create or give a style, fashion or image to.
• v. (transitive) To call or give a name or title to.

sympathy

• n. A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion.
• n. The ability to share the feelings of another.
• n. A mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
• n. Tendency towards or approval of the aims of a movement.