patheticism

noun

Etymology

From pathetic + -ism. First attested in 1758.

Definitions

  1. 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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