psychological moment

noun

the proper or critical time for achieving a desired result:
She found the right psychological moment to make her request.

the most appropriate time for producing a desired effect
he proposed to her at the psychological moment

First recorded in 1870–75

What fire superiority accomplishes; psychological moment for charge determined by tactical instinct.

The wise rival is he who knows how to seize upon the psychological moment and urge his suit in no faint-hearted manner.

Whether it was chance, or whether she had been waiting outside for the psychological moment, certainly her entrance was opportune.

That the public, receiving it at what we now term the psychological moment, may have overrated it is by no means impossible.

I became lightning-proof at last; also I learned better to select the psychological moment for the correction.

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