What is another word for apogean?

Pronunciation: [ˌapə͡ʊd͡ʒˈi͡ən] (IPA)

Apogean refers to the furthest distance between two celestial bodies or the highest point of something. There are several synonyms that can be used to describe this concept, including zenith, apex, acme, culmination, and climax. Each of these words describes the pinnacle or ultimate point of something, whether it be a celestial object's orbit or a situation or accomplishment. Other synonyms for apogean include peak, top, summit, crest, and climax. These words are used to describe the ultimate level or height of something, and as such are often used in literature, poetry, and other forms of expressive writing.

Synonyms for Apogean:

What are the hypernyms for Apogean?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    periodicity, astronomical event, astronomical cycle, celestial movement, orbital phenomenon.

Usage examples for Apogean

Conscious that the human organism, normally capable of sustaining an atmospheric pressure of 19 tons, when elevated to a considerable altitude in the terrestrial atmosphere suffered with arithmetical progression of intensity, according as the line of demarcation between troposphere and stratosphere was approximated from nasal hemorrhage, impeded respiration and vertigo, when proposing this problem for solution, he had conjectured as a working hypothesis which could not be proved impossible that a more adaptable and differently anatomically constructed race of beings might subsist otherwise under Martian, Mercurial, Veneral, Jovian, Saturnian, Neptunian or Uranian sufficient and equivalent conditions, though an apogean humanity of beings created in varying forms with finite differences resulting similar to the whole and to one another would probably there as here remain inalterably and inalienably attached to vanities, to vanities of vanities and to all that is vanity.
"Ulysses"
James Joyce

Related words: apogee, apogees

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