extimate

Meaning

Adjective

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

Origin

• , modelled after ultimate. Extimus is the superlative form of exter, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs. Compare intimate.
• . Extimacy is a calque of French extimité ( (1901–1981) in 1959–1960), probably from a blend of French externe + intimité. The English word can be analysed as a .