Climax vs Climactically - What's the difference?
climax | climactically |
The point of greatest intensity or force in an ascending series; a culmination
* 1949 , Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart,
The turning point in a plot or in dramatic action, especially one marking a change in the protagonist's affairs.
(ecosystem)(label) A stage of ecological development in which a community of organisms is stable and capable of perpetuating itself.
(slang) An orgasm.
(rhetoric) Ordering of terms in increasing order of importance or magnitude.
(rhetoric) Anadiplosis.
To reach or bring to a climax
* {{quote-news
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, date=May 31
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, title=Film: Review: Snow White And The Huntsman
To orgasm; to reach orgasm
In a climactic fashion; like, or as, a climax.
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=January 27, author=Troy Patterson, title=Your Place or Mine, work=New York Times
, passage=When Ike thinks about why he loves New York, he muses on its “sense of possibility” and the ducks in Central Park and all that, but, climactically , he thinks of being another face in the crowd: “He loves the liberating feeling that this city doesn’t seem to give a damn about him and never did.” }}
As a noun climax
is climax.As an adverb climactically is
in a climactic fashion; like, or as, a climax.climax
English
Noun
(es)- The snowshoe-rabbits build up through the years until they reach a climax when the seem to be everywhere; then with dramatic suddenness their pestilence falls upon them.
Synonyms
* See alsoCoordinate terms
* (order by increasing importance) catacosmesisDerived terms
* climactic * climax communityVerb
(es)citation, page= , passage=Huntsman starts out with a vision of Theron that’s specific, unique, and weighted in character, but it trends throughout toward generic fantasy tropes and black-and-white morality, and climaxes in a thoroughly familiar face-off. }}
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* *climactically
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Adverb
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