different between catharsis vs ventilation

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (kátharsis, “cleansing, purging”), from ??????? (kathaír?, “I cleanse”). Coined in the dramatic-emotional sense by Aristotle.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?????s?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k???????s?s/

Noun

catharsis (countable and uncountable, plural catharses)

1. (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).
2. Any release of emotional tension to the same effect, more widely.
3. A purification or cleansing, especially emotional.
4. (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).
5. (medicine) Purging of the digestive system.

Derived terms

• hemocatharsis

Related terms

• cathartic

Translations

Anagrams

• archaists, stasiarch

Romanian

Etymology

From French catharsis

Noun

catharsis n (uncountable)

1. catharsis

Declension

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ventilation, from Old French ventilacion, from Late Latin ventilatio, from Latin ventilo.Morphologically ventilate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

ventilation (countable and uncountable, plural ventilations)

1. The replacement of stale or noxious air with fresh.
   • 1991, Robert DeNiro (actor), Backdraft:

     So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before or after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?

2. The mechanical system used to circulate and replace air.
3. An exchange of views during a discussion.
4. The public exposure of an issue or topic.
5. The bodily process of breathing; the inhalation of air to provide oxygen, and the exhalation of spent air to remove carbon dioxide.
6. (medicine) The mechanical system used to assist breathing.

Related terms

• ventilate

Translations

Anagrams

• antiviolent

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin ventilatio, ventilationem, from Latin ventilo.

Pronunciation

Noun

ventilation f (plural ventilations)

1. ventilation: replacement of stale or noxious air with fresh.
2. ventilation: mechanical system used to circulate and replace air.
3. repartition

Related terms

• ventiler

Further reading

• “ventilation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

ventilation (uncountable)

1. ventilation