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Climax vs Climaxless - What's the difference?

climax | climaxless |

As a noun climax

is climax.

As an adjective climaxless is

without a climax.

climax

English

Noun

(es)
  • The point of greatest intensity or force in an ascending series; a culmination
  • * 1949 , Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart,
    • 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.
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Coordinate terms

    * (order by increasing importance) catacosmesis

    Derived terms

    * climactic * climax community

    Related terms

    * climacteric

    Verb

    (es)
  • To reach or bring to a climax
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  • To orgasm; to reach orgasm

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    climaxless

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Without a climax.
  • * 2000 , John Limon, Stand-up comedy in theory, or, Abjection in America?
    • Thus a "tragedy" such as Tania's feeds comedies such as Celine's: a comedy here is the continuous, endless, climaxless performance of tragedies.