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n. Medicine Purgation, especially for the digestive system.

n. A purifying or figurative cleansing of the emotions, especially pity and fear, described by Aristotle as an effect of tragic drama on its audience.

n. A release of emotional tension, as after an overwhelming experience, that restores or refreshes the spirit.

n. Psychology A technique used to relieve tension and anxiety by bringing repressed feelings and fears to consciousness.

n. Psychology The therapeutic result of this process; abreaction.

n. 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.

n. Any release of emotional tension to the same effect, more widely.

n. A purification or cleansing, especially emotional.

n. A therapeutic technique to relieve tension.

n. Purging of the digestive system.

n. A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc.

n. The process of relieving an abnormal excitement by reëstablishing the association of the emotion with the memory or idea of the event that first caused it, and of eliminating it by complete expression (called the abreaction).

n. In medicine, a natural or artificial purgation of any passage, especially the bowels. Also called apocatharsis.

n. Used in English to express whatever Aristotle is supposed to have meant by the same word.

n. purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels

n. (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions

"You saw them disagreeing even on whether we can use the -- the term catharsis here."

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