extimate /ˈɛkstɪmət/ adjective2 •In the works of Jacques Lacan: simultaneously external and intimate.The notion of the extimate object as the cause of desire is used to denote that the most intimate and hidden aspect of the subject is also that which is most foreign and other to ourselves. — 2000 •(no longer used, rare) Most distant or faraway; outermost, uttermost.Colour is the visible quality of a Body, the Pythagoreans called Colour the extimate appearance of a Body; […] — 1704
