1. A sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work)
   "a peripeteia swiftly turns a routine sequence of events into a story worth telling"
   - peripetia, peripety

Derived forms: peripeteias

Type of: surprise

Encyclopedia: Peripeteia

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• Invar
• invariability
• invariable
• invariableness
• invariably
• invariance
• invariant
• invasion
• invasion of Iwo
• invasion of privacy
• invasive
• invective
• inveigh
• inveigle
• inveiglement
• inveigler
• invent
• invention
• inventive
• inventively
• inventiveness
• inventor
• inventory
• inventory accounting