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English

Noun

peripetia (countable and uncountable, plural peripetias)

1. Alternative form of peripeteia

Anagrams

• reppiaite

English

Alternative forms

• peripetia, peripety

Etymology

From Late Latin peripetia, and its source Ancient Greek ?????????? (peripéteia), ultimately from ???? (perí, “round, around, about”) + the stem of ????? (pípt?, “to fall”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p???p??t??/, /p???p??ta??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p???p??ti?/, /p???p??ta??/

Noun

peripeteia (countable and uncountable, plural peripeteias)

1. (drama) A sudden reversal of fortune as a plot point in Classical tragedy.
2. (by extension) Any sudden change in circumstances; a crisis. [from 16th c.]
   • 1965, John Fowles, The Magus:

     Once more I was a man in a myth, incapable of understanding it, but somehow aware that understanding it meant it must continue, however sinister its peripeteia.

   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review books 2006, p. 167:

     They were to bestride the Algerian scene like demigods until the tragic peripeteia of 1961 […]

3. (psychoanalysis) A turning point in psychosocial development. [from 1960s]

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Further reading

• peripeteia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia