'denouement' definitions:
Definition of 'denouement'
(from WordNet)
noun
The outcome of a complex sequence of events
noun
The final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work
Synonyms of 'denouement'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accomplishment,
- action,
- anagnorisis,
- angle,
- answer,
- apodosis,
- architectonics,
- architecture,
- argument,
- ascertainment,
- atmosphere,
- background,
- bitter end,
- catastrophe,
- ceasing,
- cessation,
- characterization,
- clearing up,
- climax,
- coda,
- color,
- completion,
- complication,
- conclusion,
- consummation,
- continuity,
- contrivance,
- crack of doom,
- cracking,
- culmination,
- curtain,
- curtains,
- death,
- decease,
- decipherment,
- decoding,
- design,
- destination,
- destiny,
- determination,
- development,
- device,
- disentanglement,
- doom,
- effect,
- end,
- end point,
- end result,
- ending,
- envoi,
- epilogue,
- episode,
- eschatology,
- expiration,
- explanation,
- fable,
- falling action,
- fate,
- final result,
- final solution,
- final twitch,
- final words,
- finale,
- finality,
- finding,
- finding-out,
- finis,
- finish,
- gimmick,
- goal,
- incident,
- interpretation,
- issue,
- izzard,
- last,
- last act,
- last breath,
- last gasp,
- last things,
- last trumpet,
- last words,
- latter end,
- line,
- local color,
- mood,
- motif,
- movement,
- mythos,
- omega,
- outcome,
- payoff,
- period,
- peripeteia,
- peroration,
- plan,
- plot,
- quietus,
- reason,
- recognition,
- resolution,
- resolving,
- resting place,
- result,
- riddling,
- rising action,
- scheme,
- secondary plot,
- slant,
- solution,
- solving,
- sorting out,
- stoppage,
- stopping place,
- story,
- structure,
- subject,
- subplot,
- swan song,
- switch,
- term,
- terminal,
- termination,
- terminus,
- thematic development,
- theme,
- tone,
- topic,
- twist,
- unraveling,
- unriddling,
- unscrambling,
- unspinning,
- untangling,
- untwisting,
- unweaving,
- upshot,
- windup,
- working,
- working-out,
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