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peripeteia

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Noun
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun peripeteia has 1 sense

  • peripeteia(n = noun.event) peripetia, peripety - a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work); "a peripeteia swiftly turns a routine sequence of events into a story worth telling"
  • is a kind of surprise

OXFORD DICTIONARY

peripeteia, n. a sudden change of fortune in a drama or in life.

Etymology
Gk (as PERI-, pet- f. pipto fall)
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