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antikliimaks

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EKI Combined Dictionary 2026

Last modified 14.01.2025

Meanings

1
endise hiilguse järsk kadu, pettumust valmistav lõpplahendus

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  • Hästi alanud mängu viimasel minutil löödud omavärav oli täielik antikliimaks.
2
kõnekujund, milles sõnad või väljendid on järjestatud nii, et nende intensiivsus, tähtsus astmeliselt väheneb

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Filmikunsti terminibaas Filmterm

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Domain screenwriting
  • an abrupt lapse from growing intensity [of importance or dramatic tension in the narrative], with the effect of disappointed expectation or deflated suspense [of the audience]. Unintentional anticlimax is known as "bathos"; but anticlimactic descent from the sublime to the ludicrous can also be used deliberately for comic effect. (Baldick, 2001, p. 13) Also see bathos

Word forms

Inflection Type 2e

antikliimaks antikliimaksid
antikliimaksi antikliimaksite
antikliimaksit antikliimakseid

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