catharsis English

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What does catharsis mean?

catharsis

— 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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katharsis

purgation

purification

expurgation

abreaction

quarantine

purging

lustration

expiation