expressive style vs bathos

bathos vs expressive style

expressive style and bathos both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
expressive style	Yes	No	No	No
bathos	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, bathos is a hyponym of expressive style; that is, bathos is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than expressive style:

expressive style: a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period
bathos: triteness or triviality of style

Other hyponyms of expressive style include allegory, analysis, black humor, black humour, device, eloquence, fluency, smoothness, euphuism, flatness, expression, formulation, grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric, headlinese, jargon, journalese, legalese, delivery, manner of speaking, speech, officialese, pathos, prose, rhetoric, coarseness, saltiness, self-expression, sesquipedality, terseness, turn of expression, turn of phrase, vein, verboseness, verbosity, genre, literary genre, writing style, poetry, digressiveness.

expressive style (noun)	bathos (noun)
a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period	triteness or triviality of style
	a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
	insincere pathos

Difference between expressive style and bathos

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