Definitions from Wiktionary (pathos)

▸ noun:  The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality.
▸ noun:  (rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses emotional appeals to the audience as the main form of persuasion.
▸ noun:  (literature) An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.
▸ noun:  (theology, philosophy) In theology and existentialist ethics following Kierkegaard and Heidegger, a deep and abiding commitment of the heart, as in the notion of "finding your passion" as an important aspect of a fully lived, engaged life.
▸ noun:  Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.

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