1. An external body part that projects from the body
   "it is important to keep the extremities warm";
   - appendage, member
    
2. An extreme condition or state (especially of adversity or disease)
   "The famine had reduced the population to a state of extremity"
    
3. The greatest or utmost degree
   "the extremity of despair"
    
4. The outermost or farthest region or point
   "They explored the extremities of the cave system"
    
5. That part of a limb that is farthest from the torso
   "Frostbite often affects the extremities first"

Derived forms: extremities

Type of: adversity, external body part, hard knocks [informal], hardship, part, region, ultimacy, ultimateness

Part of: limb

Encyclopedia: Extremity