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ULTIMACY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state or degree of being ultimate; the final or most extreme in degree or size or time or distance
Example:
the ultimacy of these social values
Synonyms:
ultimacy; ultimateness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("ultimacy" is a kind of...):
degree; level; point; stage (a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process)
Attribute:
ultimate (furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ultimacy"):
extremity (the greatest or utmost degree)
profoundness (extremeness of degree)
