Definition of extremity in English:

extremity

nounPlural extremities ɛkˈstrɛmɪtiɪkˈstrɛmɪtiɪkˈstrɛmədi

1The furthest point or limit of something.
the peninsula's western extremity
Example sentencesExamples
- The final major feature is Circus Rift, which is at the western extremity of the Upper Series.
- We're dealing here with the rule and not the exception, the middle, not the extremities.
- A starting box containing the female was connected to the central branch of the Y maze, and two peripheral boxes, containing the males, were placed at the extremity of the secondary branches.
- Set well back behind eroded cliffs close to the western extremity of St Abbs Head in Berwickshire, this is a boat dive in what could almost be described as a lagoon, protected from the chop and surge on the outside.
- Although the Maginot Line stopped short of the Ardennes, much of this area consisted of steep hills covered by thick forest, and its western extremity was protected by the deep and wide River Meuse with its steeply escarped banks.
- The North-East should be seen as a bridge to lands and opportunities beyond rather than as a cul-de-sac in a troublesome extremity of the country.
- George felt a mild tingling sensation surge into the furthest extremities of his fingers and toes.
- Some linkage groups may correspond to the extremities of chromosomes yet are unlinked to the arm to which they belong.
- Neither one of us knew what hazards and beats awaited us at the extremity of this path.
- The eastern extremity of the peninsula is called Ackers Point.
- Angling is from the boat only, and these are based at Stronaclachar near the western extremity.
- The hotel boasts stunning sea views and lies at the southern extremity of the Sinai peninsula.
- At the western extremity of Florentine territory (in the outskirts of Pisa) was a historic Petrine site, the Romanesque church of San Piero a Grado.
- The town stands on a hill, and I was taken into the public garden at the extremity of the town.
- Cyprus's southern extremity is just 200 kilometres from the Suez Canal.
- For centuries it was part of a Roman burial ground, an unclean extremity lying beyond the walls of the City of London.
- There was one occasion when house fires broke out at the same time in each extremity.
- Fundamentally, there is little to choose between the extremities of right and left in politics.
Synonyms
limit, end, edge, side, farthest point, boundary, border, frontier, boundary line, bound, bounding line, partition line, demarcation line, end point, cut-off point, termination
perimeter, circumference, outside, outline, confine, periphery, outskirts, margin, brink, rim, lip, fringe, verge, threshold, compass
literary bourn, marge, skirt
rare ambit
1. 1.1extremities The hands and feet.
  tingling and numbness in the extremities
  Example sentencesExamples
  I was beginning to feel cold, a shaky internal cold that started in my middle and spread out to my extremities.
  My whole mouth throbs with each heartbeat, a little movement coming to my extremities, allowing me to flex my fingers.
  With me, it's extreme neuralgic pain - a nerve pain - in my lower extremities, from my knees down to my feet.
  Most occur in the deep soft tissues of the proximal extremities, especially the thigh.
  Lukov was taken to the St. Ana hospital with a broken upper jaw, broken arm, medium brain injury and injuries in the extremities.
  If you're like me and dread the time when you must constrain your toes and suffocate your lower extremities, don't!
  His limbs looked flabby, his extremities bloated, his gut rose and fell with the labor of his breathing.
  It is amazing to see a patient who can barely move his or her extremities put forth the effort to wiggle his or her fingers in my dog's soft fur.
  Swelling can affect the extremities, especially the ankles and toes, often later in pregnancy.
  Hyperthermic therapy and limb perfusion may be used on extremities.
  The circulating nurse placed a sequential compression device on Mr V's left arm and lower extremities.
  Later, the upper extremities develop a glove pattern sensory loss beginning in the fingertips and progressing up the arms.
  It affects blood vessels in the extremities such as fingers and toes.
  The extremities, especially the arms, were most often involved by these lesions.
  When prey arrives they quickly seize its extremities, pulling on legs, arms and antennae until the hostage is rendered immobile.
  It is the breath that radiates outward from the navel to the arms and legs, literally bringing life energy to the extremities.
  To prevent blacking out, I tighten every muscle in my lower extremities, from my stomach to the little tendons in my toes.
  Thin extremities with arthrogrypotic fourth finger contractures bilaterally were also noted.
  He's lounging around, not so casually, swatting any tender, caring hands away from his injured extremities.
  Following Nigel's advice, I made superhuman attempts to keep my extremities warm in sub human conditions of almost minus 40.
  Synonyms
  hands and feet, fingers and toes, limbs
2mass noun The degree to which something is extreme.
the extremity of the violence concerns us
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘There are not enough exclamation marks in this universe to convey the extremity of my recoil from a statement so reality-impaired,’ he wrote.
- I became alienated from everything that was going on around me - because of the violence and extremity of it.
- In Being and Time, Heidegger carried Emersonian subjectivity and self-reliance to a point of new extremity.
- She starts, too, from positions of provoking extremity… but passes rapidly from violent identification to a blank disbelief in what she has undertaken to say.
- The case of Vancouver's mass-murder of sex trade workers was rare because of its extremity, but violence on the stroll is nothing new.
- Indeed, the intensity of belonging to a culture of extremity is repeatedly amplified through the media.
- You practise, you train incessantly just for such climactic moments of extremity, to be asked the crucial questions, and then to deliver.
- In so doing, he rejects the historicist injunction of authoritatively re-enacting the extremity of the past in favor of a modernist staging of the uncertain history of the present.
- I think it's certainly quite a lot of the comedy that I've been involved in is quite extreme, if you like, and the extremity is part of what's funny about it.
- And what surprises me is the extremity of the view he now expresses.
- For the meantime he could only smile as if the world were bright and wonderful and hope that the extremity of his happiness would tell them something had changed.
- Now the people with whom she sits are ones drawn to her very extremity.
- It was evident in the extremity of his frown that Paul was trying to imagine what sort of a man could actually beat up Robert Matthews, and five others in the bargain-
- The intensity and extremity of this expansion of experience is paralleled by the deepening of communion, by which particularity and individuation are shared with others.
- Once New Zealand realises the extremity and the radical nature of what that man is proposing with tax and other financial matters, they will be mortified.
- It soon becomes clear that there are no markers by which extremity can actually be determined, whether in sexual terms or any other.
- First, administration officials exaggerated the extremity of the possible responses.
- It is the filmmakers of East Asia who've cornered the market in outrage and extremity.
- The letters manage to humanise his juxtapositions of emotional extremity and spiritual clarity.
- But once we get beyond those clear points of extremity, I don't think we do find that there is consensus on what human rights are.
Synonyms
intensity, high degree, magnitude, acuteness, ferocity, vehemence, fierceness, violence, severity, seriousness, strength, power, powerfulness, potency, vigour, force, forcefulness, gravity, graveness, severeness, grievousness
1. 2.1 A condition of extreme adversity.
  the terror of an animal in extremity
  Example sentencesExamples
  If we intervene only in extremity, only in order to stop mass murder and mass deportation, the idea that we are defending X's norms and not Y's is simply wrong.
  Every scene enacts some moment of emotional extremity in which the characters are confronted by their inability to articulate their desires and react instead with violence and cruelty, the lees of love.
  Because man's extremity is God's opportunity!
  Since the criteria of her anthology require a poet to have personally experienced political or social extremity, technically her own work is disqualified.
  They are considered the Olympics of extremity.
  For the reader who doesn't share Harrison's fascination with physical extremity, though, the journey can seem less sensuous or revelatory than furtively pornographic.
  Through the examples of the various characters' responses to radical hardship and extremity in the wake of the war's carnage, the film presents the act of killing as the basis of human degradation and loss of self.
  In extremity, they rebelled and rioted with regularity and enthusiasm.
  Yet the idea that some things should not be shown is persistent, and present even in extremity.
  My disappointment with Christian rock has always been its lack of extremity, of the aching sorrow or joy, the celebration or desperation that fuels the best rock and traditional black gospel music.
  You often go to sites of extremity, crisis, and conflict that too often are depicted in a stereotypical or sensationalized manner in the press.
  Many will find fault with such writing, written in conditions of extremity, and which rely on the immediacies of direct address.
  This's a fair sketch of idiosyncrasy run amuck, but it's also a compelling portrait of mental and spiritual extremity.
  Synonyms
  dire straits, trouble, difficulty, hard times, hardship, adversity, misfortune, distress
  crisis, emergency, disaster, catastrophe, calamity, cataclysm
  predicament, plight, mess, dilemma
  setback, reverse, reversal
  destitution, indigence, exigency
  informal fix, pickle, jam, spot, bind, stew, scrape, hole, sticky situation, hot water, deep water, hell, hell on earth
  British informal spot of bother

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French extremite or Latin extremitas, from extremus 'utmost' (see extreme).

Definition of extremity in US English:

extremity

nounɪkˈstrɛmədiikˈstremədē

1The furthest point or limit of something.
the peninsula's western extremity
Example sentencesExamples
- Although the Maginot Line stopped short of the Ardennes, much of this area consisted of steep hills covered by thick forest, and its western extremity was protected by the deep and wide River Meuse with its steeply escarped banks.
- Angling is from the boat only, and these are based at Stronaclachar near the western extremity.
- At the western extremity of Florentine territory (in the outskirts of Pisa) was a historic Petrine site, the Romanesque church of San Piero a Grado.
- Some linkage groups may correspond to the extremities of chromosomes yet are unlinked to the arm to which they belong.
- The final major feature is Circus Rift, which is at the western extremity of the Upper Series.
- A starting box containing the female was connected to the central branch of the Y maze, and two peripheral boxes, containing the males, were placed at the extremity of the secondary branches.
- Fundamentally, there is little to choose between the extremities of right and left in politics.
- The town stands on a hill, and I was taken into the public garden at the extremity of the town.
- The North-East should be seen as a bridge to lands and opportunities beyond rather than as a cul-de-sac in a troublesome extremity of the country.
- For centuries it was part of a Roman burial ground, an unclean extremity lying beyond the walls of the City of London.
- Neither one of us knew what hazards and beats awaited us at the extremity of this path.
- The hotel boasts stunning sea views and lies at the southern extremity of the Sinai peninsula.
- Cyprus's southern extremity is just 200 kilometres from the Suez Canal.
- The eastern extremity of the peninsula is called Ackers Point.
- We're dealing here with the rule and not the exception, the middle, not the extremities.
- George felt a mild tingling sensation surge into the furthest extremities of his fingers and toes.
- There was one occasion when house fires broke out at the same time in each extremity.
- Set well back behind eroded cliffs close to the western extremity of St Abbs Head in Berwickshire, this is a boat dive in what could almost be described as a lagoon, protected from the chop and surge on the outside.
Synonyms
limit, end, edge, side, farthest point, boundary, border, frontier, boundary line, bound, bounding line, partition line, demarcation line, end point, cut-off point, termination
1. 1.1extremities The hands and feet.
  tingling and numbness in the extremities
  Example sentencesExamples
  It affects blood vessels in the extremities such as fingers and toes.
  Later, the upper extremities develop a glove pattern sensory loss beginning in the fingertips and progressing up the arms.
  Swelling can affect the extremities, especially the ankles and toes, often later in pregnancy.
  The circulating nurse placed a sequential compression device on Mr V's left arm and lower extremities.
  To prevent blacking out, I tighten every muscle in my lower extremities, from my stomach to the little tendons in my toes.
  His limbs looked flabby, his extremities bloated, his gut rose and fell with the labor of his breathing.
  Thin extremities with arthrogrypotic fourth finger contractures bilaterally were also noted.
  It is the breath that radiates outward from the navel to the arms and legs, literally bringing life energy to the extremities.
  With me, it's extreme neuralgic pain - a nerve pain - in my lower extremities, from my knees down to my feet.
  Hyperthermic therapy and limb perfusion may be used on extremities.
  If you're like me and dread the time when you must constrain your toes and suffocate your lower extremities, don't!
  When prey arrives they quickly seize its extremities, pulling on legs, arms and antennae until the hostage is rendered immobile.
  I was beginning to feel cold, a shaky internal cold that started in my middle and spread out to my extremities.
  Lukov was taken to the St. Ana hospital with a broken upper jaw, broken arm, medium brain injury and injuries in the extremities.
  He's lounging around, not so casually, swatting any tender, caring hands away from his injured extremities.
  The extremities, especially the arms, were most often involved by these lesions.
  Following Nigel's advice, I made superhuman attempts to keep my extremities warm in sub human conditions of almost minus 40.
  My whole mouth throbs with each heartbeat, a little movement coming to my extremities, allowing me to flex my fingers.
  It is amazing to see a patient who can barely move his or her extremities put forth the effort to wiggle his or her fingers in my dog's soft fur.
  Most occur in the deep soft tissues of the proximal extremities, especially the thigh.
  Synonyms
  hands and feet, fingers and toes, limbs
2The extreme degree or nature of something.
the extremity of the violence concerns us
Example sentencesExamples
- Now the people with whom she sits are ones drawn to her very extremity.
- ‘There are not enough exclamation marks in this universe to convey the extremity of my recoil from a statement so reality-impaired,’ he wrote.
- It soon becomes clear that there are no markers by which extremity can actually be determined, whether in sexual terms or any other.
- The intensity and extremity of this expansion of experience is paralleled by the deepening of communion, by which particularity and individuation are shared with others.
- Once New Zealand realises the extremity and the radical nature of what that man is proposing with tax and other financial matters, they will be mortified.
- And what surprises me is the extremity of the view he now expresses.
- It was evident in the extremity of his frown that Paul was trying to imagine what sort of a man could actually beat up Robert Matthews, and five others in the bargain-
- I became alienated from everything that was going on around me - because of the violence and extremity of it.
- I think it's certainly quite a lot of the comedy that I've been involved in is quite extreme, if you like, and the extremity is part of what's funny about it.
- She starts, too, from positions of provoking extremity… but passes rapidly from violent identification to a blank disbelief in what she has undertaken to say.
- For the meantime he could only smile as if the world were bright and wonderful and hope that the extremity of his happiness would tell them something had changed.
- It is the filmmakers of East Asia who've cornered the market in outrage and extremity.
- The case of Vancouver's mass-murder of sex trade workers was rare because of its extremity, but violence on the stroll is nothing new.
- First, administration officials exaggerated the extremity of the possible responses.
- You practise, you train incessantly just for such climactic moments of extremity, to be asked the crucial questions, and then to deliver.
- But once we get beyond those clear points of extremity, I don't think we do find that there is consensus on what human rights are.
- Indeed, the intensity of belonging to a culture of extremity is repeatedly amplified through the media.
- In so doing, he rejects the historicist injunction of authoritatively re-enacting the extremity of the past in favor of a modernist staging of the uncertain history of the present.
- In Being and Time, Heidegger carried Emersonian subjectivity and self-reliance to a point of new extremity.
- The letters manage to humanise his juxtapositions of emotional extremity and spiritual clarity.
Synonyms
intensity, high degree, magnitude, acuteness, ferocity, vehemence, fierceness, violence, severity, seriousness, strength, power, powerfulness, potency, vigour, force, forcefulness, gravity, graveness, severeness, grievousness
1. 2.1 A condition of extreme adversity or difficulty.
  the terror of an animal in extremity
  Example sentencesExamples
  They are considered the Olympics of extremity.
  Every scene enacts some moment of emotional extremity in which the characters are confronted by their inability to articulate their desires and react instead with violence and cruelty, the lees of love.
  My disappointment with Christian rock has always been its lack of extremity, of the aching sorrow or joy, the celebration or desperation that fuels the best rock and traditional black gospel music.
  Yet the idea that some things should not be shown is persistent, and present even in extremity.
  Many will find fault with such writing, written in conditions of extremity, and which rely on the immediacies of direct address.
  If we intervene only in extremity, only in order to stop mass murder and mass deportation, the idea that we are defending X's norms and not Y's is simply wrong.
  For the reader who doesn't share Harrison's fascination with physical extremity, though, the journey can seem less sensuous or revelatory than furtively pornographic.
  Since the criteria of her anthology require a poet to have personally experienced political or social extremity, technically her own work is disqualified.
  You often go to sites of extremity, crisis, and conflict that too often are depicted in a stereotypical or sensationalized manner in the press.
  This's a fair sketch of idiosyncrasy run amuck, but it's also a compelling portrait of mental and spiritual extremity.
  In extremity, they rebelled and rioted with regularity and enthusiasm.
  Through the examples of the various characters' responses to radical hardship and extremity in the wake of the war's carnage, the film presents the act of killing as the basis of human degradation and loss of self.
  Because man's extremity is God's opportunity!
  Synonyms
  dire straits, trouble, difficulty, hard times, hardship, adversity, misfortune, distress

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French extremite or Latin extremitas, from extremus ‘utmost’ (see extreme).

单词	extremity
释义	Definition of extremity in English: extremity nounPlural extremities ɛkˈstrɛmɪtiɪkˈstrɛmɪtiɪkˈstrɛmədi 1The furthest point or limit of something. the peninsula's western extremity Example sentencesExamples The final major feature is Circus Rift, which is at the western extremity of the Upper Series. We're dealing here with the rule and not the exception, the middle, not the extremities. A starting box containing the female was connected to the central branch of the Y maze, and two peripheral boxes, containing the males, were placed at the extremity of the secondary branches. Set well back behind eroded cliffs close to the western extremity of St Abbs Head in Berwickshire, this is a boat dive in what could almost be described as a lagoon, protected from the chop and surge on the outside. Although the Maginot Line stopped short of the Ardennes, much of this area consisted of steep hills covered by thick forest, and its western extremity was protected by the deep and wide River Meuse with its steeply escarped banks. The North-East should be seen as a bridge to lands and opportunities beyond rather than as a cul-de-sac in a troublesome extremity of the country. George felt a mild tingling sensation surge into the furthest extremities of his fingers and toes. Some linkage groups may correspond to the extremities of chromosomes yet are unlinked to the arm to which they belong. Neither one of us knew what hazards and beats awaited us at the extremity of this path. The eastern extremity of the peninsula is called Ackers Point. Angling is from the boat only, and these are based at Stronaclachar near the western extremity. The hotel boasts stunning sea views and lies at the southern extremity of the Sinai peninsula. At the western extremity of Florentine territory (in the outskirts of Pisa) was a historic Petrine site, the Romanesque church of San Piero a Grado. The town stands on a hill, and I was taken into the public garden at the extremity of the town. Cyprus's southern extremity is just 200 kilometres from the Suez Canal. For centuries it was part of a Roman burial ground, an unclean extremity lying beyond the walls of the City of London. There was one occasion when house fires broke out at the same time in each extremity. Fundamentally, there is little to choose between the extremities of right and left in politics. Synonyms limit, end, edge, side, farthest point, boundary, border, frontier, boundary line, bound, bounding line, partition line, demarcation line, end point, cut-off point, termination perimeter, circumference, outside, outline, confine, periphery, outskirts, margin, brink, rim, lip, fringe, verge, threshold, compass literary bourn, marge, skirt rare ambit 1.1extremities The hands and feet. tingling and numbness in the extremities Example sentencesExamples I was beginning to feel cold, a shaky internal cold that started in my middle and spread out to my extremities. My whole mouth throbs with each heartbeat, a little movement coming to my extremities, allowing me to flex my fingers. With me, it's extreme neuralgic pain - a nerve pain - in my lower extremities, from my knees down to my feet. Most occur in the deep soft tissues of the proximal extremities, especially the thigh. Lukov was taken to the St. Ana hospital with a broken upper jaw, broken arm, medium brain injury and injuries in the extremities. If you're like me and dread the time when you must constrain your toes and suffocate your lower extremities, don't! His limbs looked flabby, his extremities bloated, his gut rose and fell with the labor of his breathing. It is amazing to see a patient who can barely move his or her extremities put forth the effort to wiggle his or her fingers in my dog's soft fur. Swelling can affect the extremities, especially the ankles and toes, often later in pregnancy. Hyperthermic therapy and limb perfusion may be used on extremities. The circulating nurse placed a sequential compression device on Mr V's left arm and lower extremities. Later, the upper extremities develop a glove pattern sensory loss beginning in the fingertips and progressing up the arms. It affects blood vessels in the extremities such as fingers and toes. The extremities, especially the arms, were most often involved by these lesions. When prey arrives they quickly seize its extremities, pulling on legs, arms and antennae until the hostage is rendered immobile. It is the breath that radiates outward from the navel to the arms and legs, literally bringing life energy to the extremities. To prevent blacking out, I tighten every muscle in my lower extremities, from my stomach to the little tendons in my toes. Thin extremities with arthrogrypotic fourth finger contractures bilaterally were also noted. He's lounging around, not so casually, swatting any tender, caring hands away from his injured extremities. Following Nigel's advice, I made superhuman attempts to keep my extremities warm in sub human conditions of almost minus 40. Synonyms hands and feet, fingers and toes, limbs 2mass noun The degree to which something is extreme. the extremity of the violence concerns us Example sentencesExamples ‘There are not enough exclamation marks in this universe to convey the extremity of my recoil from a statement so reality-impaired,’ he wrote. I became alienated from everything that was going on around me - because of the violence and extremity of it. In Being and Time, Heidegger carried Emersonian subjectivity and self-reliance to a point of new extremity. She starts, too, from positions of provoking extremity… but passes rapidly from violent identification to a blank disbelief in what she has undertaken to say. The case of Vancouver's mass-murder of sex trade workers was rare because of its extremity, but violence on the stroll is nothing new. Indeed, the intensity of belonging to a culture of extremity is repeatedly amplified through the media. You practise, you train incessantly just for such climactic moments of extremity, to be asked the crucial questions, and then to deliver. In so doing, he rejects the historicist injunction of authoritatively re-enacting the extremity of the past in favor of a modernist staging of the uncertain history of the present. I think it's certainly quite a lot of the comedy that I've been involved in is quite extreme, if you like, and the extremity is part of what's funny about it. And what surprises me is the extremity of the view he now expresses. For the meantime he could only smile as if the world were bright and wonderful and hope that the extremity of his happiness would tell them something had changed. Now the people with whom she sits are ones drawn to her very extremity. It was evident in the extremity of his frown that Paul was trying to imagine what sort of a man could actually beat up Robert Matthews, and five others in the bargain- The intensity and extremity of this expansion of experience is paralleled by the deepening of communion, by which particularity and individuation are shared with others. Once New Zealand realises the extremity and the radical nature of what that man is proposing with tax and other financial matters, they will be mortified. It soon becomes clear that there are no markers by which extremity can actually be determined, whether in sexual terms or any other. First, administration officials exaggerated the extremity of the possible responses. It is the filmmakers of East Asia who've cornered the market in outrage and extremity. The letters manage to humanise his juxtapositions of emotional extremity and spiritual clarity. But once we get beyond those clear points of extremity, I don't think we do find that there is consensus on what human rights are. Synonyms intensity, high degree, magnitude, acuteness, ferocity, vehemence, fierceness, violence, severity, seriousness, strength, power, powerfulness, potency, vigour, force, forcefulness, gravity, graveness, severeness, grievousness 2.1 A condition of extreme adversity. the terror of an animal in extremity Example sentencesExamples If we intervene only in extremity, only in order to stop mass murder and mass deportation, the idea that we are defending X's norms and not Y's is simply wrong. Every scene enacts some moment of emotional extremity in which the characters are confronted by their inability to articulate their desires and react instead with violence and cruelty, the lees of love. Because man's extremity is God's opportunity! Since the criteria of her anthology require a poet to have personally experienced political or social extremity, technically her own work is disqualified. They are considered the Olympics of extremity. For the reader who doesn't share Harrison's fascination with physical extremity, though, the journey can seem less sensuous or revelatory than furtively pornographic. Through the examples of the various characters' responses to radical hardship and extremity in the wake of the war's carnage, the film presents the act of killing as the basis of human degradation and loss of self. In extremity, they rebelled and rioted with regularity and enthusiasm. Yet the idea that some things should not be shown is persistent, and present even in extremity. My disappointment with Christian rock has always been its lack of extremity, of the aching sorrow or joy, the celebration or desperation that fuels the best rock and traditional black gospel music. You often go to sites of extremity, crisis, and conflict that too often are depicted in a stereotypical or sensationalized manner in the press. Many will find fault with such writing, written in conditions of extremity, and which rely on the immediacies of direct address. This's a fair sketch of idiosyncrasy run amuck, but it's also a compelling portrait of mental and spiritual extremity. Synonyms dire straits, trouble, difficulty, hard times, hardship, adversity, misfortune, distress crisis, emergency, disaster, catastrophe, calamity, cataclysm predicament, plight, mess, dilemma setback, reverse, reversal destitution, indigence, exigency informal fix, pickle, jam, spot, bind, stew, scrape, hole, sticky situation, hot water, deep water, hell, hell on earth British informal spot of bother Origin Late Middle English: from Old French extremite or Latin extremitas, from extremus 'utmost' (see extreme). Definition of extremity in US English: extremity nounɪkˈstrɛmədiikˈstremədē 1The furthest point or limit of something. the peninsula's western extremity Example sentencesExamples Although the Maginot Line stopped short of the Ardennes, much of this area consisted of steep hills covered by thick forest, and its western extremity was protected by the deep and wide River Meuse with its steeply escarped banks. Angling is from the boat only, and these are based at Stronaclachar near the western extremity. At the western extremity of Florentine territory (in the outskirts of Pisa) was a historic Petrine site, the Romanesque church of San Piero a Grado. Some linkage groups may correspond to the extremities of chromosomes yet are unlinked to the arm to which they belong. The final major feature is Circus Rift, which is at the western extremity of the Upper Series. A starting box containing the female was connected to the central branch of the Y maze, and two peripheral boxes, containing the males, were placed at the extremity of the secondary branches. Fundamentally, there is little to choose between the extremities of right and left in politics. The town stands on a hill, and I was taken into the public garden at the extremity of the town. The North-East should be seen as a bridge to lands and opportunities beyond rather than as a cul-de-sac in a troublesome extremity of the country. For centuries it was part of a Roman burial ground, an unclean extremity lying beyond the walls of the City of London. Neither one of us knew what hazards and beats awaited us at the extremity of this path. The hotel boasts stunning sea views and lies at the southern extremity of the Sinai peninsula. Cyprus's southern extremity is just 200 kilometres from the Suez Canal. The eastern extremity of the peninsula is called Ackers Point. We're dealing here with the rule and not the exception, the middle, not the extremities. George felt a mild tingling sensation surge into the furthest extremities of his fingers and toes. There was one occasion when house fires broke out at the same time in each extremity. Set well back behind eroded cliffs close to the western extremity of St Abbs Head in Berwickshire, this is a boat dive in what could almost be described as a lagoon, protected from the chop and surge on the outside. Synonyms limit, end, edge, side, farthest point, boundary, border, frontier, boundary line, bound, bounding line, partition line, demarcation line, end point, cut-off point, termination 1.1extremities The hands and feet. tingling and numbness in the extremities Example sentencesExamples It affects blood vessels in the extremities such as fingers and toes. Later, the upper extremities develop a glove pattern sensory loss beginning in the fingertips and progressing up the arms. Swelling can affect the extremities, especially the ankles and toes, often later in pregnancy. The circulating nurse placed a sequential compression device on Mr V's left arm and lower extremities. To prevent blacking out, I tighten every muscle in my lower extremities, from my stomach to the little tendons in my toes. His limbs looked flabby, his extremities bloated, his gut rose and fell with the labor of his breathing. Thin extremities with arthrogrypotic fourth finger contractures bilaterally were also noted. It is the breath that radiates outward from the navel to the arms and legs, literally bringing life energy to the extremities. With me, it's extreme neuralgic pain - a nerve pain - in my lower extremities, from my knees down to my feet. Hyperthermic therapy and limb perfusion may be used on extremities. If you're like me and dread the time when you must constrain your toes and suffocate your lower extremities, don't! When prey arrives they quickly seize its extremities, pulling on legs, arms and antennae until the hostage is rendered immobile. I was beginning to feel cold, a shaky internal cold that started in my middle and spread out to my extremities. Lukov was taken to the St. Ana hospital with a broken upper jaw, broken arm, medium brain injury and injuries in the extremities. He's lounging around, not so casually, swatting any tender, caring hands away from his injured extremities. The extremities, especially the arms, were most often involved by these lesions. Following Nigel's advice, I made superhuman attempts to keep my extremities warm in sub human conditions of almost minus 40. My whole mouth throbs with each heartbeat, a little movement coming to my extremities, allowing me to flex my fingers. It is amazing to see a patient who can barely move his or her extremities put forth the effort to wiggle his or her fingers in my dog's soft fur. Most occur in the deep soft tissues of the proximal extremities, especially the thigh. Synonyms hands and feet, fingers and toes, limbs 2The extreme degree or nature of something. the extremity of the violence concerns us Example sentencesExamples Now the people with whom she sits are ones drawn to her very extremity. ‘There are not enough exclamation marks in this universe to convey the extremity of my recoil from a statement so reality-impaired,’ he wrote. It soon becomes clear that there are no markers by which extremity can actually be determined, whether in sexual terms or any other. The intensity and extremity of this expansion of experience is paralleled by the deepening of communion, by which particularity and individuation are shared with others. Once New Zealand realises the extremity and the radical nature of what that man is proposing with tax and other financial matters, they will be mortified. And what surprises me is the extremity of the view he now expresses. It was evident in the extremity of his frown that Paul was trying to imagine what sort of a man could actually beat up Robert Matthews, and five others in the bargain- I became alienated from everything that was going on around me - because of the violence and extremity of it. I think it's certainly quite a lot of the comedy that I've been involved in is quite extreme, if you like, and the extremity is part of what's funny about it. She starts, too, from positions of provoking extremity… but passes rapidly from violent identification to a blank disbelief in what she has undertaken to say. For the meantime he could only smile as if the world were bright and wonderful and hope that the extremity of his happiness would tell them something had changed. It is the filmmakers of East Asia who've cornered the market in outrage and extremity. The case of Vancouver's mass-murder of sex trade workers was rare because of its extremity, but violence on the stroll is nothing new. First, administration officials exaggerated the extremity of the possible responses. You practise, you train incessantly just for such climactic moments of extremity, to be asked the crucial questions, and then to deliver. But once we get beyond those clear points of extremity, I don't think we do find that there is consensus on what human rights are. Indeed, the intensity of belonging to a culture of extremity is repeatedly amplified through the media. In so doing, he rejects the historicist injunction of authoritatively re-enacting the extremity of the past in favor of a modernist staging of the uncertain history of the present. In Being and Time, Heidegger carried Emersonian subjectivity and self-reliance to a point of new extremity. The letters manage to humanise his juxtapositions of emotional extremity and spiritual clarity. Synonyms intensity, high degree, magnitude, acuteness, ferocity, vehemence, fierceness, violence, severity, seriousness, strength, power, powerfulness, potency, vigour, force, forcefulness, gravity, graveness, severeness, grievousness 2.1 A condition of extreme adversity or difficulty. the terror of an animal in extremity Example sentencesExamples They are considered the Olympics of extremity. Every scene enacts some moment of emotional extremity in which the characters are confronted by their inability to articulate their desires and react instead with violence and cruelty, the lees of love. My disappointment with Christian rock has always been its lack of extremity, of the aching sorrow or joy, the celebration or desperation that fuels the best rock and traditional black gospel music. Yet the idea that some things should not be shown is persistent, and present even in extremity. Many will find fault with such writing, written in conditions of extremity, and which rely on the immediacies of direct address. If we intervene only in extremity, only in order to stop mass murder and mass deportation, the idea that we are defending X's norms and not Y's is simply wrong. For the reader who doesn't share Harrison's fascination with physical extremity, though, the journey can seem less sensuous or revelatory than furtively pornographic. Since the criteria of her anthology require a poet to have personally experienced political or social extremity, technically her own work is disqualified. You often go to sites of extremity, crisis, and conflict that too often are depicted in a stereotypical or sensationalized manner in the press. This's a fair sketch of idiosyncrasy run amuck, but it's also a compelling portrait of mental and spiritual extremity. In extremity, they rebelled and rioted with regularity and enthusiasm. Through the examples of the various characters' responses to radical hardship and extremity in the wake of the war's carnage, the film presents the act of killing as the basis of human degradation and loss of self. Because man's extremity is God's opportunity! Synonyms dire straits, trouble, difficulty, hard times, hardship, adversity, misfortune, distress Origin Late Middle English: from Old French extremite or Latin extremitas, from extremus ‘utmost’ (see extreme).
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