Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bathos"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bathos \Ba"thos\, n. [Gr. ? depth, fr. ? deep.] (Rhet.)
A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing
or speech; anticlimax.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bathos
n 1: triteness or triviality of style
2: insincere pathos [syn: {mawkishness}]
3: a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one [syn:
{anticlimax}]
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