peripety
/pəˈɹɪpəti/
noun 2
Collocations
1ADJ.
adamic, bound, violent
Definitions
noun
1
Alternative form of peripeteia (“sudden change in circumstances; crisis”).
For him to fall in love was itself a violent peripety, bound to produce a violent upheaval […]
As a consequence of the primeval peripety, the Adamic fall narrated in Genesis 3, […]
2
The third stage of a dream in Jungian theory.
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Synonyms
noun — a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circ
- peripeteia
- peripetia
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For him to fall in love was itself a violent peripety, bound to produce a violent upheaval […]
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As a consequence of the primeval peripety, the Adamic fall narrated in Genesis 3, […]
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