catharsisnoun [ C or U ]
uk/kəˈθɑː.sɪs/us/kəˈθɑːr.sɪs/plural catharses uk/-siːz/usthe process of releasing strong emotions through a particular activity or experience, such as writing or theatre, in a way that helps you to understand those emotions
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Correcting and mending
- clean (sth) up
- correction
- fiddle (around) with sth
- fine-tune
- fix sth up
- lie
- mess
- patch
- reconstruction
- refine
- refinement
- refit
- remediate
- revised
- smooth
- sort sth/sb out
- troubleshooting
- tune
- under repair idiom
- work on sth
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Science of psychology & psychoanalysis
cathartic
adjective uk/kəˈθɑː.tɪk/us/kəˈθɑːr.tɪk/
a cathartic experience