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n. - The property of being remote.

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Usage examples (4)
  • I have no further reason to deplore its farawayness.
  • Her brain willed her fingers to conquer their heaviness, their farawayness, and write:
  • A certain strange, farawayness of thought is apparent, and a grave tenderness that is not quite like anything he had previously written.
  • Just to test her, for there is something in the animation of her face and the farawayness of the eye that makes you suspect her sincerity, you say:
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