ULTIMACY
Dictionary entry overview: What does ultimacy mean?
• ULTIMACY (noun)
The noun ULTIMACY has 1 sense:
1. the state or degree of being ultimate; the final or most extreme in degree or size or time or distance,
Familiarity information: ULTIMACY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ULTIMACY (noun)
Meaning:
The state or degree of being ultimate; the final or most extreme in degree or size or time or distance,
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
ultimacy; ultimateness
Context example:
the ultimacy of these social values
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)
