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bathos

/ˈbeɪθɒs/
noun
  1. Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.

  2. Depth.

  3. (the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to

Synonymsanticlimax, banality, triteness, chewing the scenery,, hamminess, cheesiness
Antonymspathos, depth, nadir

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