Main entry: climax, coming, sexual climax, orgasm
Definition: the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
Main entry: culmination, climax
Definition: the decisive moment in a novel or play
Usage: the deathbed scene is the climax of the play
Main entry: climax
Definition: arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness
Main entry: 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
Main entry: climax
Definition: the most severe stage of a disease
Definition: end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
Usage: The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace