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Mar. 28, 2014
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\kuh-THAHR-seez\
noun
1. the purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, especially through certain kinds of art, as tragedy or music.
2. Medicine/Medical. purgation.
Quotes
Then they argued about whether the sensation of cath... See full quote
-- Walter Van Tilburg Clark, The City of Trembling Leaves, 1945
Origin
Catharsis came to English in the late 1700s from the Greek kátharsis meaning "a cleansing."
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