The most extreme or furthest point of something.
[B]eſtowe your love on him, who, were it not to do you ſervice, would through the extremitie of love rather wiſh to die then live.
An extreme measure.
A hand or foot.
Guillain–Barré syndrome causes one to not be able to move one’s extremities.
From Middle English extremite, from Old French extremité, from Latin extrēmitātem (“extremity; border, perimeter; ending”), from extrēmīs (“furthest, extreme”) + -itās (ultimately from Proto-Indo-Euro...
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