Meaning & use
climax
The most intense, exciting, or important point in a story, event, or series of events.
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The film's climax arrives when the two rivals finally confront each other.
Ticket sales reached their climax the week before the concert took place.
A note on using this word
In storytelling, the climax comes after rising action and just before the resolution of the plot.
Words with a similar meaning
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Words with an opposite meaning
anticlimax
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