longinquity
Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- noun Greatness of distance; remoteness.
Examples
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Inordinate unvaried length, sheer longinquity, staggers the heart, ages the very heart of us at a view.
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"You are free," said his friends at last, who had wanted to prove him; "and they showed him the king's order, which he read," says Abbe Arnauld, "without any change of countenance, and as little affected by joy as he had been a moment before by the longinquity of his release."
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5
Note
The word 'longinquity' comes from a Latin word meaning 'remote'.
