The word 'extremity' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to the most extreme point of something, either physical or figurative. For example, "After months of drought, the town was now facing the extremity of thirst."
Caithness, in the northernmost extremity of mainland Scotland, isn't the most likely place for a trendy gin distillery.
Was he aware of the extremity of his responses?
Denis found herself briefly bracketed with the "new French extremity" wave of films, fashionable in the late 1990s for depicting sex and death with pornographic relish.
Donor fatigue and the extremity of the country's poverty are now causing those hopes to wither.
Separatist movements exist in Madura, Kalimantan and the Moluccas, though they are puny in comparison with the two best organised, in Aceh on the northern tip of Sumatra, and, at the other extremity, in West Papua (formerly called Irian Jaya, and before that West New Guinea) some 4,000km 2,5000 miles) away to the east.
The turbulence of his era emerges in the extremity of his writings.
Labourites gripe that his office is aloof, a complaint accentuated by its physical location (high in Norman Shaw, the turreted Victorian office block on the northern extremity of the parliamentary estate).
From the extremity of Asia it was not too hard to get to North America, which happily was joined to South America.
Happily, Ms Witherspoon's winning performance as a control freak finding love in the last extremity keeps the soufflé from collapsing .In Her Shoes", which has also just been released in America and opens in Britain next month, aims higher but misses.
Meanwhile, to replace lost customers, low-end MFIs began to serve borrowers even they had previously spurned as too great a credit risk.In this section Locus of extremity The coin has two faces Limited partnership Credit paroled Bitten Volcker plus Poor service Caveat vendor The price of getting back to work ReprintsThat proved expensive.
Yet the downturn in employment was unexpectedly mild (see chart 1).In this section Locus of extremity The coin has two faces Limited partnership Credit paroled Bitten Volcker plus Poor service Caveat vendor The price of getting back to work ReprintsThis divergence is commonly explained with nods to Britain's "productivity puzzle".
