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extimate

adj
/ˈɛkstɪmət/US

Etymology

From extimacy + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Extimacy is a calque of French extimité (coined by the French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) in 1959–1960), probably from a blend of French externe (“external”) + intimité (“closeness, intimacy”). The English word can be analysed as a blend of external + intimate.

  1. derived from *h₁eǵʰs✻ — “out”

Definitions

  1. Most distant or faraway

    Most distant or faraway; outermost, uttermost.

  2. In the works of Jacques Lacan

    In the works of Jacques Lacan: simultaneously external and intimate.

    • The notion of the extimate object as the cause of desire is used to denote that the most intimate and hidden aspect of the subject is also that which is most foreign and other to ourselves.

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