climax vs pinnacle

climax

verb
  • To reach or bring to a climax (in any sense). 

noun
  • A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order. 

  • The final term of a rhetorical climax. 

  • The culmination of sexual pleasure, an orgasm. 

  • A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series 

  • The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point. 

  • The culmination of ecological development, whereby species are in equilibrium with their environment. 

pinnacle

verb
  • To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles. 

  • To place on a pinnacle. 

noun
  • An upright member, generally ending in a small spire, used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire. 

  • The highest point. 

  • Coordinate term: sea stack 

  • A tall, sharp and craggy rock or mountain. 

  • An all-time high; a point of greatest achievement or success. 

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