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extremity

noun
/ɪkˈstɹɛmɪti/UK/ɪkˈstɹɛməti/US

Etymology

From Middle English extremite, from Old French extremité, from Latin extrēmitātem (“extremity; border, perimeter; ending”), from extrēmīs (“furthest, extreme”) + -itās (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts (suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being); see extreme. Extrēmīs is derived from exter (“external, outward”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs (“out”)) + -issimus (superlative suffix) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-is- (comparative suffix) + *-(t)m̥mo- (absolutive case suffix)).

  1. derived from *-is-✻
  2. derived from *h₁eǵʰs✻
  3. derived from *-teh₂ts✻
  4. derived from extrēmitās
  5. derived from extremité
  6. inherited from extremite

Definitions

  1. The most extreme or furthest point of something.

    • [B]eſtowe your love on him, who, were it not to do you ſervice, would through the extremitie of love rather wiſh to die then live.
    • Any ſphere revolving as on an axis, muſt have two points on its ſurface at the extremities of its axis, that do not revolve at all; theſe points, with reſpect to the Earth, are called its poles.
    • Scrooge said that he would see him—yes, indeed he did. He went the whole length of the expression, and said that he would see him in that extremity [i.e., hell] first.

  2. An extreme measure.

  3. A hand or foot.

    • Guillain–Barré syndrome causes one to not be able to move one’s extremities.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A limb (“major appendage of a human or animal such as an arm, leg, or wing”).

      • The danger of wounds of the extremities consists in the injury done to the blood-vessels, nerves, articulations, and bones.

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Derived

extremital

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at extremity. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at extremity. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at extremity

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA