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cathartic

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cathartic
adjective
writing my first book was a very cathartic experience for me:
purgative, purging, purifying, cleansing, cleaningreleasing, relieving, freeing, delivering, exorcising, ridding;
Psychoanalysis abreactive;
rare depurative, lustral.
▷antonyms repressive.