[de.noue.ment] n [F denouement, lit., untying, fr. MF desnouement, fr. desnouer to untie, fr. OF desnoer, fr. des- de- + noer to tie, fr. L nodare, fr. nodus knot--more at node] (1752) 1: the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work
2: the outcome of a complex sequence of events