The extremity of a situation or of someone's behaviour is the degree to which it is severe, unusual, or unacceptable. In spite of the extremity of her seclusion she was sane In the past, the region had been protected by its forbidding geography and the extremities of its climate
an external body part that projects from the body; "it is important to keep the extremities warm" that part of a limb that is farthest from the torso the outermost or farthest region or point the greatest or utmost degree; "the extremity of despair" an extreme condition or state (especially of adversity or disease)
that part of a limb that is farthest from the torso the outermost or farthest region or point the greatest or utmost degree; "the extremity of despair"
The extremity of something is its furthest end or edge. a small port on the north-western extremity of the Iberian peninsula. the extremities of the aeroplane