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pathopœia

pathopœia is the obsolete spelling of pathopoeia.

Meaning of pathopoeia

Noun

pathopoeia (uncountable)

  1. The arousing of emotion in someone who hears music; a passage designed to arouse emotions.
  2. (rhetoric) Speech that moves hearers emotionally, especially as the speaker attempts to elicit an emotional response by way of demonstrating his or her own feelings.

Questions about pathopœia

What is pathopœia the obsolete spelling of?
Pathopœia is the obsolete spelling of pathopoeia.

Words near pathopœia in the dictionary

  1. pathopoiesis
  2. pathopoietic
  3. pathopreventive
  4. pathoprogression
  5. pathopsychological
  6. pathopœia
  7. pathos
  8. pathoscore
  9. pathoscores
  10. pathoses
  11. pathosis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pathopœia (page history and authors); pathopoeia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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