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n. - The state of being elsewhere than in a particular place.

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  • It had a wonder and a far – awayness, even here in the heart of Sydney.
  • I didn't have words to describe the giddy sense of bigness, of far awayness, that overwhelmed me.
  • In the spring I planted some exotic lettuce varieties, which were kind of sharp and went to seed during all my house-sitting awayness.
  • His eyes had taken again the peculiar gleaming far-awayness, suspended between the realities, which, Kate suddenly realized, was the central look in the native eyes.
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