What's the difference between pathos and pity?

Pathos


Definition:

  • (n.) That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The patho-anatomic findings in the liver and the causes of death are discussed in detail.
  • (2) Comic writing can be a brutal, unforgiving business, yet it can produce great and multi-layered prose, combining comedy, pathos and satire.
  • (3) Organ explant culture models offer several significant advantages for studies of patho-physiologic mechanisms like cell injury, secretion, differentiation and structure development.
  • (4) In the (patho)-physiological range the three instruments may provide suitable results for the clinician.
  • (5) The relevant literature is reviewed and patho-physiological mechanisms of mirror reversal are discussed.
  • (6) The patho-anatomic picture and isolation of toxoplasma strains from the brain of dead sheep or their foetuses which had the antibodies in the blood before death -- all this demonstrated the occurrence of congenital infection.
  • (7) An improved understanding of the patho-physiological and biochemical changes that occur in shock states has led to new and innovative pharmacologic approaches to shock reversal.
  • (8) We used the patho-physiologic classification and divided the patients in the groups of preeclampsia and chronic hypertension.
  • (9) Review of the literature on the role of Helicobacter pylori (HP) in the patho- and morphogenesis of chronic gastritis (CG) type B, gastric ulcer (GU) and duodenal ulcer (DU) is presented.
  • (10) The patho-anatomical details of bone and soft tissues including the orbit and paranasal sinuses are well demonstrated.
  • (11) Studies demonstrating in some patients interactions between LAC and either humoral factors with important functions in the (patho-) physiology of thrombosis, endothelial cells or platelets strongly suggest that LAC represents autoantibodies with pathogenic significance.
  • (12) A patho-causal connection between the anomaly and the tuberculosis of the skin cannot be excluded, because this may arise easier in an area of disturbed blood supply.
  • (13) The movie is filled with visual effects, car chases, fights, a party that descends into drug-fuelled paranoia and moments of true pathos.
  • (14) Remarks on the patho-etiology, symptoms and treatment of this rare entity entailing a truly surgical emergence.
  • (15) As regards education, an approach from the point of view of pathology is essential for the time being in transmitting the understanding of processes of disease, based on morbid-anatomical and patho-biological findings.
  • (16) There is reason to believe that the degree of area stenosis calculated from frequency shift and predicted normal values gives a more true interpretation of functional stenosis than angiography, while the latter might be superior for evaluating vascular patho-anatomy, giving information also about intrathoracic and intracranial vessels, which also is important for evaluating patients with TIA and related symptoms.
  • (17) The key problems of the atherosclerosis patho- and morphogenesis in the light of the development of N. N. Anichkov's ideas are discussed.
  • (18) Setting out with the theory of glomerulonephritis from Volhard and Fahr (1914) and the fundamental patho-anatomical examinations on this subject by Theodor Fahr (1925, 1934) the actual problems of glomerulonephritis are described.
  • (19) The patho- and etiogenetically different processes are likely to underlie such heterogeneity.
  • (20) On the basis of its course and clinical and patho-anatomical features Ph1-CML looks like an atypical chronic myeloid leukemia.

Pity


Definition:

  • (n.) Piety.
  • (n.) A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.
  • (n.) A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted.
  • (v. t.) To feel pity or compassion for; to have sympathy with; to compassionate; to commiserate; to have tender feelings toward (any one), awakened by a knowledge of suffering.
  • (v. t.) To move to pity; -- used impersonally.
  • (v. i.) To be compassionate; to show pity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The voters don’t do gratitude, self-pitying politicians are wont to moan.
  • (2) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
  • (3) "); hopeless self-pity ("Nobody said anything to me about Billy ... all day long") and rage ("You want to put a bench in the park in Billy's name?
  • (4) Indeed, mainstream economics is a pitifully thin distillation of historical wisdom on the topics that it addresses.
  • (5) Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever?” It is there to remind him that the dots are worth fighting for.
  • (6) Last year, Amnesty International described the world’s response as “pitiful” and earlier this week, the UN special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants called on the EU to deliver a proper resettlement programme.
  • (7) April's family had to endure the "spectacle of your hypocritical sympathy for their loss and of your tears", the judge told Bridger, saying any tears were motivated purely by self-pity.
  • (8) And this is the mainspring of so many of his stories, novellas, and his one novel, Beware of Pity : the clash between propriety and desire.
  • (9) It’s actually a pity that there’s now a break because I wanted to continue playing games,” said the Italian.
  • (10) In his final fight, against the journeyman boxer Kevin McBride, he was a pitiful figure - slumped in a corner, legs splayed, unable or unwilling to stand himself up.
  • (11) Other negative emotions – self-pity, guilt, apathy, pessimism, narcissism – make it a deeply unattractive illness to be around, one that requires unusual levels of understanding and tolerance from family and friends.
  • (12) He said it was a “pity” that the UK prime minister “wasn’t able to express the British position at the press conference with Donald Trump standing next to her”.
  • (13) As the turbulent commercial radio sector enters another new phase, Park wants to sweep away the thinking that has left too many of his colleagues wallowing in self-pity, and turn his fire on a familiar target.
  • (14) Broadly defined, this sort of behaviour involves procrastination, stubbornness, resentment, sullenness, obstructionism, self-pity and a tendency to create chaotic situations.
  • (15) It is a pity we did not take our chances,” the Ukraine coach, Mykhailo Fomenko, said.
  • (16) "This depressing morning has now got me questioning my pitiful existence," sobs James Dodge.
  • (17) Foreign dignitaries were invited to attend for the first time and it is a pity that from Europe only Javier Solana chose to take the offer up.
  • (18) Men convicted of rape are often pitied in the media and, like Evans, quickly vault back to positions of fame .
  • (19) But after the strange denials that this old, sick man is dying I want to talk not with pity but of his power.
  • (20) Staff here dread the welfare reform bill, waiting for debts, arrears, evictions and pitiful hardship to wash up on their doorstep.