catharsis
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
catharsis
- (drama) A release of emotional tension after an overwhelming vicarious experience, resulting in the purging or purification of the emotions, as through watching a dramatic production (especially a tragedy).
- Any release of emotional tension to the same effect, more widely.
- A purification or cleansing, especially emotional.
- (psychology) A therapeutic technique to relieve tension by re-establishing the association of an emotion with the memory or idea of the event that first caused it, and then eliminating it by complete expression (called the abreaction).
- (medicine) Purging of the digestive system.
- French: catharsis
- German: Katharsis
- Italian: catarsi
- Portuguese: catarse
- Russian: ката́рсис
- Spanish: catarsis
- French: défoulement
- German: Katharsis
- Italian: catarsi
- Portuguese: catarse
- Russian: ката́рсис
- Spanish: catarsis
- French: défoulement
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