English Dictionary

climax

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈklaɪ.mæks/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 廃用 頻度副詞 修辞法 婉語

(originally rhetoric) A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order. / (obsolete) An instance of such an ascending series.

日本語の意味

修辞技法：一連の要素を段階的に盛り上げ、最高潮に達するように配置する表現技法。 / （古い用法）そのような段階的に上昇する一連の事例。

The author's speech relied on a carefully constructed climax to escalate the emotional intensity step by step.

著者のスピーチは、感情の強さを段階的に高めるために慎重に構築された漸増法に頼っていた。

意味（1）

(originally rhetoric) A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order.

Ye haue a figure which as well by his Greeke and Latine originals […] may be called the marching figure […] and goeth as it were by ſtrides or paces; it may aſwell by called the clyming figure, for Clymax is as much to ſay as a ladder,[…]

意味（2）

(obsolete) An instance of such an ascending series.

...Expressions for the whole Climax of sensibility...

意味（3）

(narratology) The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.

As a trafficker in climaxes and thrills and characterization and wonderful dialogue and suspense and confrontations, I had outlined the Dresden story many times.

意味（4）

(rhetoric, imprecise) The final term of a rhetorical climax.

When he adds epithets of praise, his climax is ‘so English’.

意味（5）

(ecology) The culmination of ecological development, whereby species are in equilibrium with their environment.

The succession of associations leading to a climax represents the process of adjustment to the conditions of stress, and the climax represents a condition of relative equilibrium. Climax associations... are the resultants of certain climatic, geological... conditions.

意味（6）

(euphemistic) The culmination of sexual pleasure, an orgasm.

In many cases the man's climax comes so swiftly that the woman's reactions are not nearly ready.

climaxes （ plural ）

climaces （ plural rare ）