climacteric
Meaning of climacteric
noun
- A critical stage or decisive point; a turning point.
- A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place, calculated in different ways by different authorities (often identified as every seventh or ninth year).
- The period of life that leads up to and follows the end of menstruation in women; the menopause.
- Pertaining to any of several supposedly critical years of a person's life.
- Critical or crucial; decisive.
- Relating to a period of physiological change during middle age; especially, menopausal.
- Climactic.
Information about climacteric
- The plural form of climacteric is: climacterics.
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Hyphenation of climacteric
cli-mac-teric
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- climacteric is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
climacteric synonyms
Meaning menopause:
Translation of climacteric
- Spanish: menopausia
- Portuguese: menopausa
- French: ménopause, climactérique
- Italian: menopausa
- German: klimakterisch
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