Centre and Extreme

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Centre noun - An area that is approximately central within some larger region.

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Extreme is an antonym for centre in middle topic.

Nearby Words: center, central, centrally, centred, centrum

Extreme adjective - Most distant from a center.

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Centre is an antonym for extreme.

emotional	emotional centre	emotional extreme
exact	exact centre	exact extreme
proper	proper centre	proper extreme
great	great centre	great extreme
Other adjectives: absolute, dark, new, major, negative, different.

Another way of looking at it is by invoking The Horseshoe Effect: if the people on each extreme have more in common with each other than they do with the people in the centre, than the centre starts to look a lot more favourable.

Source: Golden Mean Fallacy

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