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Synonyms and Antonyms of bathos

the state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion)
  • a novel that wallows in bathos
Synonyms of bathos

gooeyness, lovey-doveyness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, saccharinity, sappiness, sentimentalism, sentimentality, sloppiness, soppiness, syrup (also sirup)
Words Related to bathos

emotion

sentiment

corn, corniness, hokeyness (or hokiness), schmaltz (also schmalz)
Near Antonyms of bathos

cynicism, hardheadedness, hard-heartedness

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