catharsis

Etymology
From, from. Coined in the dramatic-emotional sense by Aristotle.

Noun

 * 1)  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).
 * 2) Any release of emotional tension to the same effect, more widely.
 * 3) A purification or cleansing, especially emotional.
 * 4)  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).
 * 5)  Purging of the digestive system.
 * 1)  Purging of the digestive system.

Translations

 * Arabic: تَنْفِيس
 * Bulgarian: катарзис
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 導瀉,
 * Danish: katarsis
 * Faroese: reinleikan
 * Finnish: katarsis
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κάθαρσις
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: तनफ़ीस
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: geðhreinsun
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Polish: katharsis
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: катарза
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: katarzia
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: katarsis


 * Catalan:
 * Danish: katarsis
 * Finnish: katarsis
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Polish: katharsis
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: катарза
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: katarsis


 * Czech: katarze
 * Finnish: katarttinen terapia
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Polish: katharsis
 * Turkish: katarsis


 * Finnish: suoliston puhdistaminen

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