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— English words —

• catharsis n. (Drama) A release of emotional tension after an overwhelming vicarious experience, resulting in the…
• catharsis n. Any release of emotional tension to the same effect, more widely.
• catharsis n. A purification or cleansing, especially emotional.
• catharsis n. (Psychology) A therapeutic technique to relieve tension by re-establishing the association of an emotion…
• catharsis n. (Medicine) Purging of the digestive system.

— Foreign word, define in English —

• Romanian
  • catharsis n. Catharsis.

— English word, defined in French —

• catharsis n. Catharsis.

— English word, defined in Portuguese —

• catharsis s. Catarse.

— In Dutch —

• catharsis n. Het schoonmaken van iets, iets opruimen.
• catharsis n. Plotseling en op heftige manier vinden van een oplossing…

— In French —

• catharsis n.f. (Théâtre) Purification des passions (selon Aristote) chez…
• catharsis n.f. (Psychologie) Thérapie utilisant l’extériorisation des…

35 English words from 6 English definitions

after Any association Catharsis cleansing digestive digestive␣system Drama effect emotion emotional especially establishing experience Medicine more of␣an overwhelming Psychology Purging purification re-establishing release relieve resulting same system technique tension the therapeutic the␣same to␣the vicarious widely

8 English words from 6 foreign definitions

Catharsis chez des een Het passions Purification van

16 foreign words from 6 foreign definitions

Aristote Catarse extériorisation heftige iets manier oplossing opruimen Plotseling Psychologie schoonmaken selon Théâtre Thérapie utilisant vinden

3 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

anacatharsis hemocatharsis hypercatharsis

29 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ars ARs ARS arsis Arsis ATH Atha cat Cat CAT cath Cath cath. Cathar Cathars har HAR hars HARs RSI RSIs sis SIs SIS -sis tha thar Thar thars

12 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

aht ISR Isr. rah sis SIs SIS -sis SRA Sra. tac TAC

2 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

archaists stasiarch

4 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

anarchists Aristarchs catharises stasiarchs

9 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

archaist archists asiarchs Asiarchs cathairs Charissa citharas Csataris Issachar

2 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

catharses katharsis

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