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Word: catharsis
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Meaning:
Noun:
- Any release of emotional tension to the same effect, more widely.
- A purification or cleansing, especially emotional.
- 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). Coined in this sense by Aristotle.
- medicine Purging of the digestive system.
- psychology A therapeutic technique to relieve tension.
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