peripety

English

Noun

peripety (countable and uncountable, plural peripeties)

1. Alternative form of peripeteia (“sudden change in circumstances; crisis”)
   • 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:

     For him to fall in love was itself a violent peripety, bound to produce a violent upheaval […]

   • 2020, Paul M. Blowers, Visions and Faces of the Tragic […] , Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 127:

     As a consequence of the primeval peripety, the Adamic fall narrated in Genesis 3, […]

2. (psychoanalysis) The third stage of a dream in Jungian theory.