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What is the noun for bathetic?

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bathos
  1. Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
  2. (now uncommon) Depth.
  3. (literature, the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to
    1. anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.
    2. banality: unaffectingly cliché or trite treatment of a topic.
    3. immaturity: lack of serious treatment of a topic.
    4. hyperbole: excessiveness
  4. (literature, the arts) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
  5. (uncommon) A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “But all too soon it descends into implausible melodrama and sentimental bathos.”
      “The serious message of the film is ruined by the bathos of its ridiculous ending.”
      “Not everything he does works, but Antopolski deliberately uses anticlimax and bathos in his material.”
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