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n. The point of greatest intensity or force in an ascending series or progression; a culmination. See Synonyms at summit.

n. A series of statements or ideas in an ascending order of rhetorical force or intensity.

n. The final statement in such a series.

n. A moment of great or culminating intensity in a narrative or drama, especially the conclusion of a crisis.

n. The turning point in a plot or dramatic action.

n. See orgasm.

n. A stage in ecological development in which a community of organisms, especially plants, is stable and capable of perpetuating itself. Also called climax community.

v. To bring to or reach a climax.

n. The point of greatest intensity or force in an ascending series; a culmination

n. The turning point in a plot or in dramatic action, especially one marking a change in the protagonist's affairs.

n. A stage of ecological development in which a community of organisms, is stable and capable of perpetuating itself.

n. An orgasm.

n. : Ordering of terms in increasing order of importance or magnitude.

n. : Anadiplosis.

v. To reach or bring to a climax

v. To orgasm; to reach orgasm

n. Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.

n. A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness.

n. The highest point; the greatest degree.

n. In rhetoric, originally, such an arrangement of successive clauses that the last important word of one is repeated as the first important word of the next; accumulated epanastrophe; hence (since this arrangement is generally adopted for the sake of graduated increase in force or emphasis), a figure by which a series of clauses or phrases is so arranged that each in turn surpasses the preceding one in intensity of expression or importance of meaning. See anticlimax.

n. In logic: A sorites, or chain of reasoning.

n. The sophism called sorites (which see).

n. The highest point of intensity, development, etc.; the culmination; acme: as, he was then at the climax of his fortunes.

To reach the highest point or climax; culminate.

n. the most severe stage of a disease

n. the decisive moment in a novel or play

n. arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness

n. the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse

n. the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding

v. end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage

"The mytho-historical language virus that eats up much of the book has no bearing on the story, the big bad A-Bomb that gets mentioned repeatedly turns out to be of no concern, and the climax is a mob guy beating the bad guy with a skateboard."

climaxed    climaxes    climaxing   

point    level    degree    stage    minute    second    moment    instant    rhetorical device    occasion   

height    crown    to cap the climax   

gradation    ascent    graduation   

outburst    culmination    conclusion    revelation    catastrophe    frenzy    orgasm    manifestation    consummation    spectacle