extremity
/ɪkˈstɹɛməti/ noun C1- The most extreme or furthest point of something.
- An extreme measure.
- A hand or foot. · Guillain–Barré syndrome causes one to not be able to move one’s extremities.
- A limb (“major appendage of a human or animal such as an arm, leg, or wing”).
Plural extremities
From the library
There was no one in Charles Street, but a great traffic was going on, as usual, in Whitehall, at the extremity.
The fellow looked at us in a helpless way, and he wrung his hands together like one who is in the last extremity of doubt and misery.
He moved his bed, drew up the stone, rushed into the passage, and reached the opposite extremity; the secret entrance was open.
The two men, approaching the ends of the bed, took the sack by its extremities.
Learn extremity in real texts
With a free account, hover any word in the library for its meaning, hear it read aloud, save words for review timed to your memory, and see how much of each book you already know.