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Originally Posted by meliss  I don't understand the meaning of the second part of the sentence above (after "extremist"):
"Someone who disagrees with you,..., is an "extremist", which carries all the implications of "excess", that are so obviously in the word's antecedents."
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It means that "extremist" is dervied from "extremism" which is derived from "extreme". All of the words have a great deal to do with "excess".