ETHOS
What does "ETHOS" mean?
The characteristic spirit, values, or beliefs of a person, group, or culture.
Meanings
- The defining character, values, or guiding beliefs of a community or era. An ethos of openness ran through the whole company.
- In rhetoric, an appeal to the speaker's credibility and character. Aristotle named ethos, pathos, and logos as the three appeals. technical
Did you know?
- Aristotle split persuasion into three appeals - ethos (the speaker's character), pathos (the audience's emotion), and logos (the argument's logic) - and over two thousand years later, every ad still uses all three.
Word origin
Directly from Greek 'ethos' (custom, habit, character) - the same root that gives us 'ethic' and 'ethical'; Aristotle made it one of his three modes of persuasion.
Remember it
ETHOS and ETHIC are siblings from the same Greek root - ethos is the spirit, ethic is the rule it produces.
A little poem
Not what the sign on the door says,
but how the room behaves
when no customer is in it.
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Wordplay
- Why do ethos and ethic always finish each other's sentences? They share the exact same Greek root - one is the spirit, the other is just the spirit with rules.
What it teaches
An ethos is not declared on a wall; it is the unwritten rule a place keeps when it forgets it's being judged.
Quick facts
What does ETHOS mean?
The characteristic spirit, values, or beliefs of a person, group, or culture.
Is ETHOS a valid word?
Yes — ETHOS is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is ETHOS?
ETHOS has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does ETHOS come from?
Directly from Greek 'ethos' (custom, habit, character) - the same root that gives us 'ethic' and 'ethical'; Aristotle made it one of his three modes of persuasion.
What can ETHOS teach us?
An ethos is not declared on a wall; it is the unwritten rule a place keeps when it forgets it's being judged.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.