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pathetic fallacy
noun
- the endowment of nature, inanimate objects, etc., with human traits and feelings, as in the smiling skies; the angry sea.
pathetic fallacy
noun
- (in literature) the presentation of inanimate objects in nature as possessing human feelings
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pathetic fallacy1
Coined by John Ruskin in Modern Painters Vol. III, Part IV (1856)
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Example Sentences
And more than anything, they demolish the pathetic fallacy—that the world weeps as we do.
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He has not 'the pathetic fallacy'; but he approaches it very nearly at times.
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Compare, for this "pathetic fallacy" in painting, Titian's "Noli me tangere" (No. 270).
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The vast "pathetic fallacy" makes religion of the whole of life.
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It is Browning's contradiction of any one who thinks that the pathetic fallacy exists in his poetry.
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To make 'Nature' really interesting you must have a touch of Wordsworthian pantheism and of Shelley's 'pathetic fallacy.'
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