cathartic
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7.4
- adjective
- /kəˈθɑrtɪk/
- Crying during the movie felt cathartic as I released all my pent-up sadness.
- cathartic experience
- cathartic effect
- cathartic release
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Watch on YouTubeLike, I don't go like, I think having that cathartic experience makes me feel less alone.
- Like, I don't go like, I think having that cathartic experience makes me feel less alone.
- And it was the most cathartic experience I've ever had in my entire life.
- Everybody just needs time to to heal and kind of have their cathartic moment with all of this.
- I do think that I really do think that sweat is cathartic in a really major way.
- It was just, it was really cathartic.
- And to be out loud about it was cathartic.
- I mean, the, the, the, the last time I went, man, it was, it was cathartic, but it was damn painful, man.
- The more you push those feelings down, the more you resist your own cathartic healing process, the more you actually elongate it.
- So much was cathartic and also scary because it was still many weeks away.
- And, and I suppose the book to extent How to Build a Car was that was quite a cathartic trip back, which I'd never really done until I wrote that book.
Examples
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And it was the most cathartic experience I've ever had in my entire life.
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Everybody just needs time to to heal and kind of have their cathartic moment with all of this.
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I think it's a perfect end to this, a perfect cathartic end to a cathartic week.
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And, and and I knew that I needed to go through some kind of cathartic process.
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And again, it was just so cathartic as my way of processing, I think what had happened.
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All I can say is I think this'll be cathartic for the both of us.
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In the group interviews, the cathartic function of the interview was increased by the presence of intimate, long-time friends.
Academic text (1994) -
I had the privilege of experiencing the cathartic power of your music live in Athens last year.
Blog text (8) -
In addition, allowing victims to express their own anguish may be a cathartic condition of healing.
Academic text (2003) -
Ms. Ress's stories of survival in New York City through the 9/11 attacks gave them that cathartic experience.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
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5.4
A thing that helps a person let out strong feelings through art or therapy
Antonyms
How Healing
Surface Forms
Morphology
cathartic = catharsis (semi-transparent) = cathart + ic
The emotional sense is directly related to 'catharsis' (emotional purging), but the Greek-derived base is not a widely known everyday word for many learners.
Etymology
The word cathartic comes from the Greek word katharsis, which means 'cleansing'. So a cathartic experience helps 'clean out' strong feelings and gives emotional relief.