it means a processed emotional release. it is a healing release of emotions. It also means a laxative or purging affect which can include an emotional aspect as well as a physiological aspect.
Many find the high-energy aggression levels in Karate truly cathartic.
Depending on context you could substitute cathartic with bad, corrupt, diseased, noxious, rotten, sickening, unhealthful, unhealthy.
* engaging in an activity, e.g. photography, in one's every day life is particularly cathartic for the mind.
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Mean
Cathartic means providing psychological relief by releasing repressed emotions. It can refer to a cleansing or purging experience that helps alleviate emotional tension or stress.
"We need to put cathartic in this medicine."
Mary found the psychologist's style of therapy to be very cathartic. Cathartic can be used an as adjective or a noun.A sentence with the word cathartic that uses context clues is, crying at the sight of her lost dog returning to her yard gave cathartic release to her emotions.
It's an adjective, used to describe a noun or a gerund. Examples: Richard found the effort very cathartic. (noun is 'effort') Talking to someone about a problem can be cathartic. (gerund is 'talking') Jane found using a punchbag highly cathartic. (gerund is 'using') Exercise is often cathartic. (noun is 'exercise'
A cathartic substance is one that accelerates defecation. Somebody would become cathartic by the ingestion of magnesium sulfate or sodium sulfate. In psychiatry cathartic means to recall traumatic events, usually under hypnosis. In this case a person would become cathartic by being hypnotized and then recalling traumatic events, lessening their impact on the unconscious.
Many find the high-energy aggression levels in Karate truly cathartic.
The song writing as well as writing poetry and free prose was incredibly cathartic.
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Depending on context you could substitute cathartic with bad, corrupt, diseased, noxious, rotten, sickening, unhealthful, unhealthy.
* engaging in an activity, e.g. photography, in one's every day life is particularly cathartic for the mind.
cathartic moments mean moments of one's cleansing. it could be emotional or physical cleansing and purification. moments like these are accompanied with changes in one's personality and overall being. a complete transformation in the making if one continues to be a part of it.