extimate
In the works of Jacques Lacan: simultaneously external and intimateIn the works of Jacques Lacan: simultaneously external and intimate.
Meaning
2 sensesIn the works of Jacques Lacan: simultaneously external and intimate.
(not comparable, obsolete, rare)Most distant or faraway; outermost, uttermost.
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
From Latin extimus (“furthest; outermost”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix), modelled aftFrom Latin extimus (“furthest; outermost”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix), modelled after ultimate. Extimus is the superlative form of exter (“on the outside, external, outer, outward”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs (“out”). Compare intimate.
From extimacy + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Extimacy is a calque of French extimité (coined by the French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) in 1959–1960), probably from a blend of French externe (“external”) + intimité (“closeness, intimacy”). The English word can be analysed as a blend of external + intimate.
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