peripeteia
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[edit] Etymology
From Ancient Greek περιπέτεια, ultimately from περί (“round, around, about”) + the stem of πίπτω (“to fall”).
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- IPA: /pɛrɪpɪˈtɪə/
[edit] Noun
peripeteia
- a reversal of fortune; a sudden change in circumstances
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- 1965: Once more I was a man in a myth, incapable of understanding it, but somehow aware that understanding it meant it must continue, however sinister its peripeteia. — John Fowles, The Magus
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