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Alright this etymology, I think, explains our culture quite evidently. So the etymology of “pathetic” is simply pathos, suffering, pathētikós, Greek—sensitive to suffering, as we all should be. Well, as we know, the definition of pathetic is quite different: 1) “arousing pity, especially through vulnerably or sadness” or 2) “miserably inadequ…
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