catharsis
C1CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
NeutralRegister
General noun
The release of strong emotion that brings relief.
Writing it down was a strange catharsis.
Medicine noun
A purging release of pent-up emotion that brings a sense of relief.
Recounting the trauma in a safe setting brought a catharsis that visibly lightened her demeanour.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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