extreme
adjective
of a character or kind farthest removed from the ordinary or average.
extremeness
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a word derived from
extreme.
Example Sentences
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This is something he calls “the extremeness threshold”: Flooding is not increasing everywhere.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 24, 2022
If extremeness is what propels necessary action, does the end justify the means?
From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2018
The explicitness and the extremeness of the artifice is a marker of its authenticity.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 20, 2015
“The extremeness of what I have to do is the daunting part - getting my voice back and my body back,” Mitchell said.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 20, 2014
I cannot allow the present production of my young friend to go out without a protest from me against a certain extremeness in his views, more pardonable in the poet than the philosopher.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 by Various
