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What (who) is extremity - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Extremeties; Extremity; Extremities (disambiguation); Acral; Acral parts
extremity
(extremities)
1.
The extremity of something is its furthest end or edge. (FORMAL)
...a small port on the north-western extremity of the Iberian peninsula.
...the extremities of the aeroplane.
N-COUNT: with supp
2.
Your extremities are the end parts of your body, especially your hands and feet.
He found that his extremities grew cold...
N-PLURAL: oft with poss
3.
The extremity of a situation or of someone's behaviour is the degree to which it is severe, unusual, or unacceptable.
In spite of the extremity of her seclusion she was sane...
In the past, the region had been protected by its forbidding geography and the extremities of its climate...
N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl, oft N of n
Extremity
·noun The utmost point; highest degree; most aggravated or intense form.
II. Extremity ·noun One of locomotive appendages of an animal; a limb; a leg or an arm of man.
III. Extremity ·noun The highest degree of inconvenience, pain, or suffering; greatest need or peril; extreme need; necessity.
IV. Extremity ·noun The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country.
extremity
n.
1.
End, termination, verge, edge, border, extreme.
2.
Utmost point, highest degree.
3.
Utmost distress, greatest difficulty.
Examples of use of extremity
1. He astonished the Commons by the extremity of his views.
2. Rabeeah explained that the twins are joined at the chest, abdomen and pelvis. «Each one has one lower extremity and both share a rudimentary third lower extremity.
3. The country does not accept Kosovo‘s declaration of independence, while rejecting acts of violence and extremity.
4. The Dead Sea‘s southern extremity is named for him, Cape Molyneux.
5. Brand, 31, explains it thus: "I think I‘m excited by extremity.