catharsis
noun
1 catharsis
psychoanalysis Purging of emotional tensions.
synonyms: abreaction, katharsis.
Dutch: afreactie, afreagering, catharsis
2 catharsis
Purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels.
Moby thesaurus: BM, abreaction, abstersion, acting-out, bloody flux, bowdlerization, bowel movement, cleaning, cleansing, crap, defecation, dejection, deliverance, detersion, diarrhea, discharge, dry cleaning, dysentery, emotional release, evacuation ... show more.
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