extimate Meaning & Definition
What Does Extimate Mean?
As an adjective, extimate means Most distant or faraway; outermost, uttermost.
Extimate Definition (Adjective)
- Most distant or faraway; outermost, uttermost.
Adjective
- In the works of Jacques Lacan: simultaneously external and intimate.
Synonyms of Extimate
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Extimate synonyms and antonyms →Word Forms & Grammar
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Origin of Extimate
Origin 1: From Latin extimus (“furthest; outermost”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix), modelled after ultimate.[1] Extimus is the superlative form of exter (“on the outside, external, outer, outward”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs (“out”). Compare intimate.
Origin 2: 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),[2][3] probably from a blend of French externe (“external”) + intimité (“closeness, intimacy”). The English word can be analysed as a blend of external + intimate.