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climax
has definitions from the fields of sexuality,rhetoric
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[ verb ] end, esp. to reach a final or climactic stage
Synonyms Examples "The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace" Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)Their activities will be climaxed in the spring of 1962 when they go_to Europe . (Confidential, 9:1...)To climax her Roman revels , she was thrown_out of the swanky Hotel_Excelsior after she had run naked through its marble halls screaming for help . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the decisive moment in a novel or play
Synonyms Examples "the deathbed scene is the climax of the play" Used in print (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)In a series of fairy_tales and fantasies , Melies demonstrated that the film is superbly equipped to tell a straightforward story , with beginning , middle and end , complications , resolutions , climaxes , and conclusions . |
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[ noun ] the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Synonyms Examples : "the climax of the artist's career" "in the flood tide of his success" Used in print (John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)The clear and searching sweep of sun on the lawns was like a climax of the year 's lights . (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)Like Eliot , in my fantasies , I had a proud bearing and , with a skill that was vaguely continental , I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits , would guide her gently to the night 's climax which , in my dreams , was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep , moist kisses burning with love . |
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[ noun ] (sexuality) the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
Synonyms Used in print (Philip Reaves, "Who Rules the Marriage Bed?"...)Marriage manuals and women 's magazine_articles began to stress the importance of the female climax . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the most severe stage of a disease
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[ noun ] (rhetoric) arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness
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