catharsisEnglishOxford American Thesauruscatharsis noun there is a view that violent games can exert a positive effect through catharsis: purging, purgation, purification, cleansing, release, relief, emotional release, freeing, deliverance, exorcism, ridding; Psychoanalysis abreaction; rare depuration, lustration. ▷antonyms repression.
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