What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Extremity vs Glome - What's the difference?

extremity | glome |

As nouns the difference between extremity and glome

is that extremity is the most extreme or furthest point of something while glome is (anatomy) one of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot or glome can be (obsolete) gloom.

As a verb glome is

(obsolete) to look gloomy, morose, or sullen.

extremity

English

Noun

(extremities)
  • The most extreme or furthest point of something.
  • An extreme measure.
  • A hand or foot.
    • causes one to not be able to move one's extremities .
  • A limb (major appendage of human or animal such as a leg an arm or a wing)

    • Synonyms

    * (furthest point of something) tip * (major appendage of human or animal) limb

    Related terms

    * extreme

    External links

    * *

    glome

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) (lena) (glomus) a ball. Compare (globe).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot.
  • (geometry) A hypersphere in 4-dimensional Euclidean space defined as the set of all points that are at a given distance from a given point, also called a 3-sphere.

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (glom)
  • (obsolete) To look gloomy, morose, or sullen.
    • (Surrey)

    Noun

  • (obsolete) gloom
    • (Webster 1913) ----