extremity vs region

region vs extremity

extremity and region both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
extremity	Yes	No	No	No
region	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, region is a hypernym of extremity; that is, region is a word with a broader meaning than extremity:

extremity: the outermost or farthest region or point
region: the extended spatial location of something

Other hypernyms of extremity include part.

extremity (noun)	region (noun)
an external body part that projects from the body	a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve
that part of a limb that is farthest from the torso	a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about
the outermost or farthest region or point	the extended spatial location of something
the greatest or utmost degree	a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth
an extreme condition or state (especially of adversity or disease)	the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')

Difference between extremity and region

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