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US
/kəˈθɑɹsəs/
]
[ UK /kæθˈɑːsɪs/ ]
[ UK /kæθˈɑːsɪs/ ]
NOUN
- (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions
- purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels
How To Use catharsis In A Sentence
- Of course, a sense of catharsis is central to a book of this nature.
- And the scene in which violence erupts is powerful without offering easy catharsis. Times, Sunday Times
- They always seem to focus on surprise and juxtaposition, or tension relief, or catharsis, or something.
- In this case, it's five days of cycling through Colorado, Utah, and Arizona cost: $1,895 excluding the airfare, and here's the group that has assembled in order to defibrillate their lives with the invigorating jolt of pre-meditated catharsis: Itineraries and Agendas: Bicycles at Work and Play
- With most artists of his stature, this would more than likely involve a clumsy catharsis resulting in a crude ego trip.
- And I think there will be a sense of catharsis and relief on the part of the majority of the Peruvian population.
- Controversy is being outweighed by catharsis as Cambodia faces up to its past.
- Their inability to speak up for themselves, their numbing inhibitions, their fear of exposure is the psychological residue of this catharsis.
- Using the doll, he demonstrated how viewing aggression causes emulation of that behavior, rather than catharsis.
- Those things the Greeks called catharsis the sharing of pity and terror and joy with all.