ULTIMACY

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 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)

Sense 1

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)