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- Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromἀναγνώρισις
- English todayanagnorisis
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀναγνώρισις (anagnṓrisis), from ἀναγνωρίζειν (anagnōrízein, “to recognise, discover”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
anagnorisis
Today it means: The moment in the plot of a drama in which the hero makes a discovery that explains previously unexplained events or situations; a denouement. Full definition →
Ancient Greek ἀναγνώρισις