| NOUN | event | peripeteia, peripetia, peripety | a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work) |
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| Meaning | A sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work). | |
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| Example | "a peripeteia swiftly turns a routine sequence of events into a story worth telling" | |
| Synonyms | peripetia, peripety | |
| Broader | surprise | A sudden unexpected event |
| Spanish | peripecia | |
| Catalan | peripècia | |
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