Extimate

Quick meaning: Extimate is an adjective meaning (psychology) In the works of Jacques Lacan: simultaneously external and intimate.

Meaning

(psychology) In the works of Jacques Lacan: simultaneously external and intimate.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete, rare) Most distant or faraway; outermost, uttermost.

Example Sentences

Colour is the viſible quality of a Body, the Pythagoreans called Colour the extimate appearance of a Body; […]

The notion of the extimate object as the cause of desire is used to denote that the most intimate and hidden aspect of the subject is also that which is most foreign and other to ourselves.

The romantic ‘fatal desire for mystical union’ emerges as a (non)relation to ‘some other’, to the ‘other’s alien life’[…]. In Lacanian terms this other functions like the extimate Thing, locus of the minimal difference in and more than the subject.

But to give Mr. [Richard] Baxter his due, though the extream or extimate parts of this Paragraph, pag. 82, which you may fancie as the skin thereof, may ſeem to have ſomething of bitterneſs and toughneſs in it, yet the Belly of the Paragraph is full of plums and ſweet things.

Synonyms for extimate

Depending on context, synonyms include farthest, furthest, distant, far, far-flung, far-off.

Antonyms for extimate

Common opposites include closest, nearest, citerior, close, immediate, near.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include utter, farmost, uttermore, nethermost, laste, dystaunt.

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