Cathartic and Relieved - what is the difference?

Cathardic is much more intense than relieved.

These two words have no connection or similarity in meaning. Any dictionary would have revealed that.

You don't think catharsis is a relief?

Can you make it a verb?

Can one "feel cathartic"?

?? He felt cathartic to see his favorite team finally winning a match. ??

It was cathartic to see his favorite team finally winning a match.

He felt a catharSIS to see his favorite team finally winning a match.

Could you say/could you have said, Punkey?

Any dictionary would reveal that.

He felt catharsized to see his favorite team finally winning a match.

It was cathartisizing to see his favorite team finally winning a match.

Personally I hate to see medical terms used to make commonplace emotions seem more significant and admirable. Nobody is in two minds about anything, they are schizoid; nobody is unhappy, they are depressed. Originally in dramatic art catharsis was the emotionally purgative effect of tragedy on the audience, and in the 20th century in psychotherapy therapeutic catharsis was the recall of traumatic experiences and expression of the buried emotions caused by them. Now it often just means any release of tension. Language being debased bla bla bla etc

That was pretty much all bla bla bla BLitt stuff, Contrex.

Given your extensive knowledge of etymology, is this the first time in the history of the English language that a word has acquired an expanded meaning?

Did that outburst give you a sense of catharsis?

The catharsis produces the relief.