Synonyms: climax, coming, sexual climax, orgasm
Definition: the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
Similar words: consummation
Definition: the act of bringing to completion or fruition
Synonyms: culmination, climax
Definition: the decisive moment in a novel or play
Usage: the deathbed scene is the climax of the play
Similar words: minute, moment, second, instant
Definition: a particular point in time
Usage: the moment he arrived the party began
Synonyms: climax
Definition: arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness
Similar words: rhetorical device
Definition: a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
Synonyms: flood tide, climax
Definition: the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
Usage: the climax of the artist's career; in the flood tide of his success
Similar words: occasion, juncture
Definition: an event that occurs at a critical time
Usage: at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave; it was needed only on special occasions
Synonyms: climax
Definition: the most severe stage of a disease
Similar words: level, stage, point, degree
Definition: a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process
Usage: a remarkable degree of frankness; at what stage are the social sciences?
Definition: end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
Usage: The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace
Similar words: cease, stop, terminate, finish, end
Definition: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
Usage: the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed; Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other; My property ends by the bushes; The symphony ends in a pianissimo