extremity
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7.8
- noun
- /ɪkˈstrɛmɪti/
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extremo
- The extremity of the weather conditions made it impossible to travel safely.
So you, you just take it to the, the most drastic extremity that you can because you want to not be bothered, you want to be left alone.
- So you, you just take it to the, the most drastic extremity that you can because you want to not be bothered, you want to be left alone.
- I've been through so much and I had witnessed such an extremity of violence and pain and suffering.
- But it's just so important to me to win in extremities that I do my best.
- I mean, Whitley is, is, is very much like Chris in, in the, the extremity and the, the nature of his experiences.
- What that sounds like is kind of a race to the bottom or a a race to extremity extremity.
Examples
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In their extremity, Dying Earth narratives stage not a confrontation with loss, but the loss of loss.
Academic text (2016) -
I rarely cried at this age, and my family was taken aback by the extremity of my response.
Academic text (2007) -
I will not say that this extremity is often also found in times of plenty, but if I should, I could easily stand my trial.
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And yet the extremity of the conditions of life push them to these moments.
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The only thing I can write about is the war because this particular condition of extremity has become my sole occupation.
Academic text (1995) -
Yet we would have not got to this extremity had he done what the situation clearly dictated.
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I've been through so much and I had witnessed such an extremity of violence and pain and suffering.
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The peasantry and the people are native to, yet tormented by, such extremity.
Fiction book (1997) -
During World War I, triage became a standard practice, and extremity wounds were no longer exclusively treated with amputation.
Academic text (2007) -
Military thinkers have attributed the tendency of war towards extremity to chain reactions engendered by the use of force.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
135
3.9
A very strong physical or mental pain
125
4.2
The farthest point or highest level of something
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5.1
The level of how bad or serious something is
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7.0
How far something goes beyond normal limits
Antonyms
Compounds
How Severe
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Extremity comes from the Latin word extremus, meaning 'outermost', and it shares the root with extreme, which means 'very great'. So extremity can also mean a very serious or highest degree of a condition.