patheticism
nounEtymology
From pathetic + -ism. First attested in 1758.
Definitions
Pathetic behavior.
- A quaint patheticism attends the diminution of obdurate winters with old people, whose excitements half a century ago were less recurrent and longer-lived than with a younger generation.
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