Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. That part of a drama in which the plot is unraveled and the whole concludes; the dénouement.
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative form of peripeteia.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work)
Examples
“When you start to look for peripetia, you find it everywhere.”
“And this metaphor in my head -- I got anagnorisis and peripetia on my chin.”
“Spends the whole movie trying to help the little kid who sees dead people, and then, boom -- oh, I'm dead -- peripetia.”
“They're two sides of the same coin, just like innovation and imitation, like risk and responsibility, like peripetia and anagnorisis, like that poor little lamb, who I hope isn't quivering anymore, and like my time that's gone.”
“While reviewing the peripetia of an episode in which ignoble intrigue and treachery have so large a share, it is restful for a moment to pause before the modest figure of General Mejia, whose loyalty was unflinching to the bitter end.”
“The _implicatio_, the _agnitio_, and the _peripetia_ are so well worked out, that Aristotle would, I think, be compelled to admit it as an almost perfect specimen of that most ancient kind of drama which was recited by one actor.”
“XXII. of the _Poetics_, which says, that that _agnitio_ is most beautiful which is joined with the _peripetia_, of which here we have so striking an example.”
“There is," he cries, "no peripetia in the tragedy, no change of fortune, no change at all.”
“Thousand-Pa writes about Gulzhan Moldajanova, who has been a general director at the Russian mining giant "Bazovy Element", and her career peripetia (”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘peripetia’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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Used
halcyon, ineluctable, inspissated, incarnadine, askance, demur, saltation, requisite, effusive, specious, liminality, indomitable and 114 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Words I Intend to use.
selectarian, solastalgia, niefling, eldritch, santagnostic, laborious, obstreperous, quibble, inusitate, cacology, tmesis, cacoethes and 50 more...
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delightful descriptors
petrichor, omphaloskepsis, ouroboros, oneiric, flaneur, saunter, dishabituation, fractalization, eudemony, phosphorescence, holographic, umwelt and 136 more...
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Predictionary
EXPECTED vs. SURPRISE
aberration, exception, spontaneous, synchronicity, startle, waylay, prophecy, zemblanity, inadvertent, atavism, sui generis, anomaly and 127 more...
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Lessons of Wordie / Wordnik
Words and concepts I learned on Wordie, or happened upon as I roamed through dictionaries and websites seeking ammunition.
usquebaugh, baugh, plunderbunny, plinthiform, hendiatris, buckjumper, peripetia, trenchmore, antifogmatic, felon, whitlow, paronychia and 152 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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Metaflip
Blasted binaries, background pattern inversions, and subtlety awareness.
apophenia, fissiparous, doppelganger, intertextuality, presque vu, unsung, dittology, enantiodromia, pareidolia, silhouette, rorschach, galanty and 151 more...
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Action Movie in 50 Words
sequel, decorated, reunification, victory, dismember, electrocute, shark, decapitate, cavalry, peripetia, throttle, blood and 38 more...
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rduke's Words
misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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belletrist's Words
belletrist, descend, superstructure, justice, epistemology, ethics, love, fuck, paradise, blasphemy, softly, death and 73 more...
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good words if used sparingly
Words that I don't want to forget, but that require caution in their use.
velleity, fealty, peripetia, bellwether, commonweal, imponderable, solipsism, soubrette, timbre, effulgent, placate, deplorable and 56 more...
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Fic
consilience, casuistry, catachresis, solivagant, meretricious, anagnorisis, peripetia, peripeteia
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kagamas's list
black mass, cheroot, inviolacy, peripetia, onanistic, eidetic, palliate, inviolable
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Tell me a story
Tweets
Looking for tweets for peripetia.

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