Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun peripetia

1 sense of peripetia

Sense 1
peripeteia, peripetia, peripety -- (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")
       => surprise -- (a sudden unexpected event)