bathos

1. (literature, the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:Examples: "While a plain and direct Road is pav'd to their ὐψος, or sublime; no Track has been yet chalk'd out to arrive at our βάθος, or profund."uncountableusually

2. (literature, the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:Synonyms: anticlimaxuncountableusually

3. (literature, the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:uncountableusually

4. (literature, the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:uncountableusually

5. (literature, the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:uncountableusually

6. (literature, the arts) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.uncountableusually