the quality or power in an actual life experience or in literature, music, speech, or other forms of expression, of evoking a feeling of pity or compassion.

pity.

Obsolete . suffering.

noun

cheer , glee , happiness , joy

noun

desolation , emotion , feeling , passion , pitiableness , pitifulness , plaintiveness , poignance , poignancy , sentimentnotes:bathos is an abrupt , unintended transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace while pathos is a quality that arouses feelings of pity , sympathy , tenderness , or sorrow , pity , sentiment