extremity
extremity n
see extreme, adj.
- Limitation; collapse; breakdown; breaking point.
- Distress; despair; calamity; catastrophe; emergency; disaster; exigency; unexpected crisis.
- Grief; sorrow; heartache; exquisite suffering; physical agony; spiritual anguish; psychological torment.
- Situation; predicament; [fig.] offense; severe penalty.
- Rigor; severity; great difficulty; utmost hardship; intensely stressful circumstance.