Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun purging of emotional tensions; -- usually spelled
catharsis .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions
- noun purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels
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Examples
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They both contain what the Greek called katharsis in their tragedies, -- that cleansing atmosphere which purges us of every baser feeling as we read them.
Lazarus 1918
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They both contain what the Greek called katharsis in their tragedies, -- that cleansing atmosphere which purges us of every baser feeling as we read them.
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Just back from picking some meat from the cherry-tree, this was a real katharsis.
Catachresis and the amusing, awful and artificial cathedral 2009
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The crisis for Mesmer also has this function of katharsis and exclusion, involving "an effort of the living body to throw off an illness" and marking
'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008
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Just write something katharsis keeping going kent kew landlady problems
Going like a bush fire... Imogen 2009
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Just write something katharsis keeping going kent kew landlady problems
Of love, and loss; devastated on Friday. Imogen 2009
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Just write something katharsis keeping going kent kew landlady problems
Five o'clock approaches... Imogen 2009
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Just write something katharsis keeping going kent kew landlady problems
I hasten to add... Imogen 2009
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Just write something katharsis keeping going kent kew landlady problems
My pitch for GY, online... Imogen 2009
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Just write something katharsis keeping going kent kew landlady problems
Closer to normal Imogen 2009
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