Catharsis vs Revelation - What's the difference?
catharsis | revelation |
(drama) A release of emotional tension after an overwhelming vicarious experience, resulting in the purging or purification of the emotions, as through watching a dramatic production (especially a tragedy).
Any release of emotional tension to the same effect, more widely.
A purification or cleansing, especially emotional.
(psychology) A therapeutic technique to relieve tension.
(medicine) Purging of the digestive system.
The act of revealing or disclosing.
Something that is revealed.
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, title= Something dramatically disclosed.
(theology) A manifestation of divine truth.
A great success.
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As nouns the difference between catharsis and revelation
is that catharsis is (drama) a release of emotional tension after an overwhelming vicarious experience, resulting in the purging or purification of the emotions, as through watching a dramatic production (especially a tragedy) while revelation is revelation.catharsis
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(wikipedia catharsis)Noun
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*revelation
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(wikipedia revelation) (en noun)How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.
Newcastle 3-0 Stoke, passage=The 26-year-old has proved a revelation since his £10m move from Freiburg, with his 11 goals in 10 matches hauling Newcastle above Spurs, who went down to Adel Taarabt's goal in Saturday's late kick-off at Loftus Road.}}