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katastasis

katastasis is the alternative form of catastasis.

Meaning of catastasis

Noun

catastasis (countable and uncountable, plural catastases)

  1. In classical drama, the second and penultimate section, in which action is heightened for the catastrophe.
    • It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses
  2. (rhetoric) The part of a speech that states the subject to be discussed.

Forms of katastasis

pluralkatastases

Questions about katastasis

What is katastasis the alternative form of?
Katastasis is the alternative form of catastasis.

Words near katastasis in the dictionary

  1. katarimono
  2. katars
  3. katas
  4. katashiro
  5. katastases
  6. katastasis
  7. katastate
  8. katastates
  9. katastatic
  10. katastematic
  11. katasukashi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: katastasis (page history and authors); catastasis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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