In a manner relating to or characteristic of a climacteric; at a critical turning point or in a way involving major change.
From 'climacterical' + '-ly' (Old English suffix meaning 'in the manner of'). The '-ly' adverbial suffix is one of English's most productive, applied to virtually any adjective to create adverbs.
The '-ly' suffix is so automatic for English speakers that we rarely notice it, but it's one of the few suffixes that actively creates new words daily—if you describe something new as 'paradigm-shifting,' a speaker might naturally say it happened 'paradigm-shiftingly.'
The adverbial form carries forward the gendered medical history embedded in 'climacteric': historical bias toward female-centered discourse in climacteric symptoms and crises, minimizing male experience.
Use neutrally across genders when describing climacteric processes. Pair with explicit gender-neutral or gender-specific terminology to avoid perpetuating female-default assumptions.
["in a transitional manner","hormonally"]
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