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adj
Most distant or faraway; outermost, uttermost.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, obsolete, rare
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Synonyms: farthest, furthest, distant, far, far-flung, far-off, faraway, outlandish, outlying, out of the way, remote
Antonyms: closest, nearest, around the corner, citerior, close, close by, immediate, near, nearby, nigh, present, propinquitous, proximate
adj
In the works of Jacques Lacan: simultaneously external and intimate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Latin extimus (“furthest; outermost”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix), modelled after ultimate. Extimus is the superlative form of exter (“on the outside, external, outer, outward”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h1eǵhs (“out”). Compare intimate.
From extimacy + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Extimacy is a calque of French extimité (coined by the French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) in 1959–1960), probably from a blend of French externe (“external”) + intimité (“closeness, intimacy”). The English word can be analysed as a blend of external + intimate.
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