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Definition

the most exciting or important part of a story, musical piece, or other thing that has a series of events

A comprehensive dictionary will describe other or more specific senses of climax.

The deathbed scene is the climax of the play.

climax = most exciting or important part

That's when the effort reached its climax.

climax = most intense period

The movie gradually increases tension until it is released in a final climactic scene.

climactic = most exciting

(editor's note: This adjective comes form the root word, climax.)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets reaches its climax when Harry enters the chamber of secrets and...

climax = most exciting or intense part

The song reached its climax: "Darkness like an endless night," sang the hundreds of voices, so powerfully the air seemed to shiver.
Jeanne DuPrau -- The City of Ember

climax = time of highest intensity

It took almost an hour and was the climax to a long evening of effort.
Jerry Spinelli -- Maniac Magee

climax = time of highest intensity

This was the climax.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

climax = most intense period

The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

climactic = of highest intensity

(editor's note: This adjective comes form the root word, climax.)

"By communing with woman," Langdon said, "man could achieve a climactic instant when his mind went totally blank and he could see God."
Dan Brown -- The Da Vinci Code

climactic = most intense

(editor's note: This adjective comes form the root word, climax.)

According to Hatto, Watanabe was a sexual sadist, freely admitting that beating prisoners brought him to climax.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

climax = orgasm (most intense feeling)

This was the logical climax of the whole misbegotten day, this whole out-of-joint term at Devon.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

climax = most exciting or important part

The Hate rose to its climax.
George Orwell -- 1984

climax = highest intensity

Not so Mr. Edgar: he grew pale with pure annoyance: a feeling that reached its climax when his lady rose, and stepping across the rug, seized Heathcliff's hands again, and laughed like one beside herself.
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights

climax = most intense level

Rich with a wealth of harmonics, their tremulous chorus mounted towards a climax, louder and ever louder–until at last, with a wave of his hand, the conductor let loose the final shattering note of ether-music and blew the sixteen merely human blowers clean out of existence.
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World

climax = time of highest intensity

Because this is the climax of the Hunger Games, and the audience expects a show.
Suzanne Collins -- The Hunger Games

climax = the most exciting or important part

Of course these objections wrought my eagerness to a climax: gratified it must be, and that without delay; and I told him so.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

climax = most intense level

At last the recording in Finny's mind reached its climax.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

climax = most exciting or important part

Mama and Papa were at the climax of debate in the combined bedroom and living room, their quiet voices trapped inside the corridor wall.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

climax = most exciting or important part

The cut bled, the pain was sharp: my terror had passed its climax; other feelings succeeded.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

climax = most intense level

Then they seemed so familiar with French names and French authors: but my amazement reached its climax when Miss Temple asked Helen if she sometimes snatched a moment to recall the Latin her father had taught her, and taking a book from a shelf, bade her read and construe a page of Virgil; and Helen obeyed, my organ of veneration expanding at every sounding line.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

climax = most intense level

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