What could be the opposite for the word Catharsis?
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Dalek Dave wrote:
A cartharsis is a release or cleansing.
So its antonym could be:Blue balls?
Thats a bit personal! :)
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What would be the 'best fit' antonym for the word Catharsis? Someone suggested "absorption" but is there anything better?
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Or some variation?
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Yes, but in common English, one has a catharsis, but not a constipation. Finding a suitable equivalent is indeed challenging. Blockage is the closest I can get now, but it is too materialistic in tone. Catharsis is a liberation and cleansing, so the opposite is not the lack of catharsis, but an orthogonally opposite concept. Sudden constraint 'of ideas'/'by thought', if only we can find one word for those four, seems quite descriptive of what I feel is the opposite of catharsis as we know it.
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