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pathetic fallacies

pathetic fallacies is the plural of pathetic fallacy.

Meaning of pathetic fallacy

Noun

pathetic fallacy (plural pathetic fallacies)

  1. The attribution of human thoughts and feelings to inanimate objects.
    • Taking, therefore, this wide field, it is surely a very notable circumstance, to begin with, that this pathetic fallacy is eminently characteristic of modern painting. For instance, Keats, describing a wave, breaking, out at sea, says of it
      Down whose green back the short-lived foam, all...1856, John Ruskin, chapter XII, in Modern Painters […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part IV (Of Many Things), § 2, page 184

Questions about pathetic fallacies

What is pathetic fallacies the plural of?
Pathetic fallacies is the plural of pathetic fallacy.

Words near pathetic fallacies in the dictionary

  1. pather
  2. pathergy
  3. pathers
  4. Pathet Lao
  5. pathetic
  6. pathetic fallacies
  7. pathetic fallacy
  8. pathetic nerve
  9. pathetic nerves
  10. pathetical
  11. pathetically

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