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Climax
| Climax Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Climax?
[n] the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
[n] the decisive moment in a novel or play; "the deathbed scene is the climax of the play"
[n] arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness
[n] the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding; "the climax of the artist's career"; "in the flood tide of his success"
[n] the most severe stage of a disease
[v] end, esp. to reach a final or climactic stage; "The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Climax: coming |
culminate |
culmination |
flood tide |
orgasm |
sexual climax
Related Terms | Find terms related to Climax: achieve satisfaction |
acme |
acme of perfection |
act of love |
adultery |
all |
apex |
aphrodisia |
apogee |
apoplexy |
ass |
balling |
bench mark |
bitter end |
breakup |
brow |
button up |
cap |
capstone |
cardinal point |
carnal knowledge |
carry to completion |
cataclysm |
catastrophe |
ceiling |
chief thing |
clean up |
close out |
close up |
cloud nine |
cohabitation |
coition |
coitus |
coitus interruptus |
come |
commerce |
complete |
completion |
conclude |
conclusion |
congress |
connection |
consummate |
consummation |
content |
convulsion |
copestone |
copula |
copulation |
core |
cornerstone |
coupling |
crest |
crisis |
critical point |
crossroads |
crown |
crux |
culmen |
culminate |
culmination |
denouement |
diastrophism |
diddling |
disaster |
edge |
ejaculate |
end |
end result |
essence |
essential |
essential matter |
extreme |
extreme limit |
extremity |
final result |
final stroke |
final touch |
finale |
finalize |
finish |
finish off |
finish up |
finisher |
finishing stroke |
fit |
fornication |
frost |
fundamental |
get done |
get it over |
get off |
get through |
get through with |
gist |
gravamen |
great point |
head |
heart |
heaven |
heavens |
height |
high noon |
high point |
highest degree |
highest pitch |
highest point |
ice |
important thing |
intercourse |
intimacy |
issue |
kernel |
keystone |
landmark |
last act |
last stroke |
last touch |
last word |
limit |
lovemaking |
main point |
main thing |
making it with |
marital relations |
marriage act |
material point |
mating |
maximum |
meat |
meridian |
milestone |
mop up |
mountaintop |
ne plus ultra |
no place higher |
noon |
nth degree |
nub |
onanism |
orgasm |
outtop |
overarch |
overthrow |
overtop |
ovum |
pareunia |
paroxysm |
payoff |
peak |
perfect |
perfection |
pink |
pink of perfection |
pinnacle |
pitch |
pith |
pivot |
please |
point |
pole |
procreation |
quake |
reach orgasm |
real issue |
relations |
ridge |
round out |
salient point |
satisfy |
screwing |
seventh heaven |
sex |
sex act |
sexual climax |
sexual commerce |
sexual congress |
sexual intercourse |
sexual relations |
sexual union |
sine qua non |
sky |
sleeping with |
spasm |
sperm |
spire |
stroke |
substance |
substantive point |
summit |
surmount |
temblor |
terminate |
termination |
the bottom line |
the point |
the whole |
tidal wave |
tip |
tip-top |
top |
top off |
top out |
tsunami |
turning point |
ultimate |
upheaval |
upmost |
upper extremity |
uppermost |
utmost |
utmost extent |
uttermost |
venery |
vertex |
very top |
wind up |
wrap up |
zenith
See Also | cease |
consummation |
crown |
degree |
end |
finish |
instant |
juncture |
level |
male orgasm |
minute |
moment |
occasion |
point |
rhetorical device |
second |
stage |
stop |
story |
terminate |
top
Climax In Webster's Dictionary
\Cli"max\, n. [L., from Gr. ? ladder, staircase, fr. ? to
make to bend, to lean. See {Ladder}, {Lean}, v. i.]
1. Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.
--Glanvill.
2. (Rhet.) A figure in which the parts of a sentence or
paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises
above its predecessor in impressiveness.
``Tribulation worketh patience, patience experience,
and experience hope'' -- a happy climax. --J. D.
Forbes.
3. The highest point; the greatest degree.
We must look higher for the climax of earthly good.
--I. Taylor.
{To cap the climax}, to surpass everything, as in excellence
or in absurdity. [Colloq.]
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