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anticlimax
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anticlimax
n.
abrupt move from a serious or tense situation to an absurd situation
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Anti-climax
Anti-climax or anticlimax (i.e., the opposite of climax in its various meanings) may refer to:
- anti-climax as a narrative element
- anti-climax as a rhetorical device
- Anticlimax, a 1990 book by Sheila Jeffreys
- anticlimax, a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Tornidae
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anticlimax
Noun
1. a disappointing decline after ad previous rise; "the anticlimax of a brilliant career"
(hypernym) fall, downfall
2. a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
(synonym) bathos
(hypernym) conclusion, end, close, closing, ending
(part-holonym) story
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anticlimax
nm.
anticlimax, bathos
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anticlímax
nm.
anticlimax, abrupt move from a serious or tense situation to an absurd situation
