(n.) Anything that evokes feelings of pity, sorrow, and sympathy\; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry.

bathos benevolence bitterness bleakness caring cheerlessness chord clemency comfortlessness commiseration compassion concern condolence depression discomfort dismalness distress distressfulness dreariness echo empathy favor feeling fellow feeling forbearance forgiveness grace grief grievousness heaviness heaviness of heart heavy heart heavyheartedness humanity identification involvement joylessness kindness lamentability lamentation leniency mercy mitigation mournfulness pain painfulness pardon pitiability pitiableness pitifulness pity poignancy quarter regrettableness relating relief reprieve response responsiveness ruth sadheartedness sadness self-pity sharing sharpness sorrowfulness sympathetic chord sympathetic response sympathy vibes vibrations woebegoneness woefulness