microclimax

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noun

A small-scale climax (in various senses).

Scrabble 26

Meanings

nounmicroclimax (plural microclimaxes)

plural microclimaxes

  1. A small-scale climax (in various senses).

    Io la conoscevo bene consists of nineteen macrosequences, where the protagonists are always using or giving orders to Adriana; each one with its own microclimax […]

    2013, Luca Barattoni, Italian Post-Neorealist Cinema, page 138
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    One can also, of course, distinguish a microclimate with a corresponding microclimax and there is no end to the distinctions and classifications one can make in this way.

    1966, Edgar Taschdjian, Organic Communications, page 174

Origin

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Chicago

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