katharsis

Other forms of katharsis

plural

katharsises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about katharsis

What does katharsis mean?

katharsis means "purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in katharsis?

katharsis has 3 syllables and divides as ka-thar-sis under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for katharsis?

Close synonyms include catharsis, purgation, catharsis, abreaction. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is katharsis a common word?

katharsis is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.