The word pathos is the origin of the English word 'pathetic'. Pathos, as a word in its own right, refers to the state of something or someone as being pathetic. Pathos is also a literary idiom, often used in tragedies, but it's also often used in satire as hyperbole, where the 'pathos' is a sarcastic idiom.
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