different between antipathy vs pathos

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (antipátheia), noun of state from ????????? (antipath?s, “opposed in feeling”), from ???? (antí, “against”) + root of ????? (páthos, “feeling”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æn?t?p??i/
• Hyphenation: an?tip?athy

Noun

antipathy (countable and uncountable, plural antipathies)

1. A feeling of dislike (normally towards someone, less often towards something); repugnance or distaste.
   • 4 November 2016, Spencer Ackerman writing in The Guardian, 'The FBI is Trumpland': anti-Clinton atmosphere spurred leaking, sources say

     Deep antipathy to Hillary Clinton exists within the FBI, multiple bureau sources have told the Guardian, spurring a rapid series of leaks damaging to her campaign just days before the election.

   • June 1917, The National Geographic Magazine Volume 31, No. 6, Our State Flowers/The Sagebrush

     The sagebrush belongs to the composite family, and its immediate cousins are widely distributed. They are known as the artemisias, and there are a host of them, many with important uses in the economy of civilization. Artemisia absinthium is popularly known as wormwood; from it comes the bitter, aromatic liquor known as eau or crême d'absinthe. Many of its cousins grow in Asia and Europe, including the mugwort, used by the Germans as a seasoning in cookery; southernwood, used by the British to drive away moths from linen and woolens and to force newly swarmed bees, which have a peculiar antipathy for it, into the hive
2. Natural contrariety or incompatibility

Usage notes

• Prepositions: "antipathy" is followed by "to", "against", or "between"; also sometimes by "for".

Synonyms

• (dislike): : hatred, aversion, dislike, disgust, distaste, enmity, ill will, repugnance, contrariety, opposition

Antonyms

• sympathy

Related terms

• antipathetic
• antipathetical
• antipathize

Translations

Further reading

• antipathy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• antipathy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• antipathy at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (páthos, “suffering”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pe????s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pe???o?s/, /?pæ??o?s/

Noun

pathos (countable and uncountable, plural pathoses)

1. The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality.
   • 1874, Thomas Hardy, Far From The Madding Crowd, 1874:

     His voice had a genuine pathos now, and his large brown hands perceptibly trembled.

   • 20 August 2018, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett in The Guardian, Young women are smashing it at Edinburgh as the #MeToo legacy kicks in

     Pritchard-McLean’s show is perfectly constructed, and at times deeply moving to the point where some audience members were near tears, yet the pathos is undercut by true belly laughs – but don’t trust me, read the reviews.

2. (rhetoric) A writer or speaker's attempt to persuade an audience through appeals involving the use of strong emotions such as pity.
3. (literature) An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.
4. (theology, philosophy) In theology and existentialist ethics following Kierkegaard and Heidegger, a deep and abiding commitment of the heart, as in the notion of "finding your passion" as an important aspect of a fully lived, engaged life.
5. Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:pathos.

Related terms

• antipathy
• apathy
• bathos
• empathy
• pathetic
• patience
• patient
• pathology
• pathogen
• psychopathy
• sympathy

Translations

Further reading

• pathos in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• pathos in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• pathos on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Pashto, Potash, potash, sophta

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• páthos, patos

Noun

pathos m (plural pathos)

1. pathos (the quality of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions)

Spanish

Noun

pathos m (plural pathos)

1. pathos