How to say "culmination" in Japanese

• 極致きょくちCommon
  nounThe figurative sense: the highest point, acme, or peak of a quality, state, or experience. Choose this when 'culmination' means the utmost degree of something rather than a result of effort or an astronomical event.
  ミロのヴィーナスは美びの極致きょくちだ。↗

  The Venus de Milo is the perfection of beauty.
• 南中なんちゅうCommon
  noun, suru verb, intransitive verbThe astronomical sense only: a celestial body crossing the meridian, also called southing. This is the word for 'culmination' in astronomy; for figurative uses of the English word, 極致 or 集大成 is what you want.
• 集大成しゅうたいせいCommon
  nounThe sense in which 'culmination' is the crowning result of hard work — the final achievement that sustained effort produces. Use this when English speaks of the culmination of someone's efforts or work.

Use 極致 for the figurative peak or acme of a quality or state, 南中 for the astronomical crossing of the meridian, and 集大成 for the crowning result of hard work or sustained effort.

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• 極致きょくちculmination
• 南中なんちゅうculmination
• 究竟くきょうculmination
• 子午線通過しごせんつうかculmination
• 集大成しゅうたいせいculmination (of hard work)
• 正中せいちゅうculmination
• 極きょくclimax