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AGAPE

[noun]

1. “unconditional love”; divine love; love that is spiritual in its nature; love without limitation.

2. New Testament: charitable, selfless, altruistic, and unconditional love; the covenant love of God for humans, as well as the human reciprocal love for God; love for humanity.

Etymology: from Classical Greek: ἀγάπη, agápē; Modern Greek: αγάπη.  Not to be confused with agape [1].

CATHARSIS

[noun]

1. the purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, especially through certain kinds of art, as tragedy or music.

2. Medicine/Medical: purgation.

3. Psychiatry: a) psychotherapy that encourages or permits the discharge of pent-up, socially unacceptable affects. b) discharge of pent-up emotions so as to result in the alleviation of symptoms or the permanent relief of the condition.

Etymology: from New Latin, from Greek katharsis, from kathairein, “to purge, purify”.