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Word: climacteric (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • critical or crucial
  • Of or pertaining to the climacteric

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Noun:

  • A critical stage or decisive point; a crisis
  • A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place in the constitution. The critical periods are thought by some to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to which others add the 81st year.
  • ''Grand'' or ''Great climacteric'', the sixty-third year of human life.
  • The period of life that leads up to and follows the end of menstruation in women; the change of life

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