The difference between Banality and Bathos
When used as nouns, banality means the quality of being , whereas bathos means overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
check bellow for the other definitions of Banality and Bathos
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Banality as a noun (uncountable):
The quality of being .
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Banality as a noun (countable):
Something which is banal.
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Bathos as a noun:
Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
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Bathos as a noun (now, _, uncommon):
Depth.
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Bathos as a noun (literature, the arts):
Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low. banality: unaffectingly cliché or trite treatment of a topic. immaturity: lack of serious treatment of a topic. hyperbole: excessiveness
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Bathos as a noun (literature, the arts):
The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
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Bathos as a noun (uncommon):
A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.