Meaning and example
(psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions
The passage used "catharsis" to mean (psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.272 places catharsis in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 90.2% of people in the source dataset.
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Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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