Bathos
English Meaning
A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.
- An abrupt, unintended transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect.
- An anticlimax.
- Insincere or grossly sentimental pathos: "a richly textured man who . . . can be . . . sentimental to the brink of bathos” ( Kenneth L. Woodward).
- Banality; triteness.