cathartic
adjective
1. emotionally purging
Similar word(s): healthful, psychotherapeutic
2. emotionally purging (of e.g. art)
Similar word(s): emotional, releasing
3. strongly laxative
noun
1. a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels
Similar word(s): aperient, physic, purgative
Definition categories: man–made, medicament, medication, medicine