add. ·noun the character, sentiment, or disposition of a community or people, considered as a natural endowment; the spirit which actuates manners and customs; also, the characteristic tone or genius of an institution or social organization.
2. ethos ·add. ·noun the traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character character as influenced by the ethos (sense 1) of a people rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense;
opposed to pathos.