extimate

Pronunciation: /ˈɛkstɪmət/

The English word “extimate” has 2 meanings listed here.

adjective

Most distant or faraway; outermost, uttermost.
In the works of Jacques Lacan: simultaneously external and intimate.

Etymology

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.

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