Associations to the word «Peripety»
Wiktionary
PERIPETY, noun. Alternative form of peripeteia
Dictionary definition
PERIPETY, noun. 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".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.