The difference between Bathos and Pathos

Bathos as a noun:

Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.

Bathos as a noun (now, _, uncommon):

Depth.

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

Bathos as a noun (literature, the arts):

The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.

Bathos as a noun (uncommon):

A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.

Pathos as a noun:

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.

Pathos as a noun (rhetoric):

A writer or speaker's attempt to persuade an audience through appeals involving the use of strong emotions such as pity.

Pathos as a noun (literature):

An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.

Pathos as a noun (theology, philosophy):

In theology and existentialist ethics following and , 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.

Pathos as a noun:

Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.