catharsis

IPA: kʌθˈɑrsʌs

(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 by re-establishing the association of an emotion with the memory or idea of the event that first caused it, and then eliminating it by complete expression (called the abreaction).
(medicine) Purging of the digestive system.

Examples of "catharsis" in Sentences

No, for me, crying used to be catharsis of the negative.
This gives us the catharsis of vengeance and indignation.
I'm dropping this into the web page as a sort of catharsis.
The film did not provide me with fulfillment or a catharsis.
Catharsis was formed in 1994 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
This was a purification ritual, a form of societal catharsis.
Losing the self through the dionysian catharsis of cataclysmic noise.
Collective Catharsis is, as the term itself suggests, a group cleansing.
Catharsis is tantamount, in this narcissistic dramaturgy, to self annulment.
It discusses violence as a means of liberation and a catharsis to subjugation.
You saw them disagreeing even on whether we can use the -- the term catharsis here.
The ancient Greeks used the term catharsis for the cleansing of both the body by medicine and the soul by art.