Other Words for Climax

Climax Noun Synonyms
turning-point, crisis, crossroads
The climax of the play occurs in the third act.

culminate, peak, crest, come to a head
The week's events climaxed with the presentation of the gold medal.

culmination, height, acme, apex, summit, zenith, apogee, peak, high point, maximum, supreme moment
The war reached its climax at the battle of Arbela.

orgasm
She told her psychiatrist that she had never reached a climax with her husband.

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Rhetorical Climax

Entertainment / Literature / Rhetorical Climax: Also known as auxesis and crescendo, this refers to an artistic arrangement of a list of items so that they appear in a sequence of increasing importance. See rhetorical schemes for more information. MORE

Literary Climax

Entertainment / Literature / Literary Climax: (From Greek word for 'ladder') The moment in a play, novel, short story, or narrative poem at which the crisis reaches its point of greatest intensity and is thereafter resolved. It is also the peak o MORE

Anticlimax

Entertainment / Literature / Anticlimax: (also called bathos) a drop, often sudden and unexpected, from a dignified or important idea or situation to one that is trivial or humorous. Also a sudden descent from something sublime to something MORE

Selling Climax

Business / Finance / Selling Climax: A sudden drop in security prices as sellers dump their holdings. MORE

Buying Climax

Business / Finance / Buying Climax: A rapid rise in the price of a stock resulting from heavy buying, which usually creates the market condition for a rapid fall in the price. MORE

Climax Community

Science / Biology / Climax Community: The stage in community succession where the community has become relatively stable through successful adjustment to its environment. MORE