Usually means: Climax or turning point development.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. catastasis: Merriam-Webster
  2. catastasis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. catastasis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. catastasis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. catastasis: Wordnik
  6. catastasis: Wiktionary
  7. catastasis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. catastasis: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Catastasis, catastasis: Dictionary.com
  10. Catastasis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Catastasis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. catastasis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Catastasis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. catastasis: FreeDictionary.org
  15. catastasis: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. catastasis: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (catastasis)

noun:  In classical drama, the second and penultimate section, in which action is heightened for the catastrophe.
noun:  (rhetoric) The part of a speech that states the subject to be discussed.

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