Definitions
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- noun the property of being remote
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Examples
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Her brain willed her fingers to conquer their heaviness, their farawayness, and write:
Captivity M. Leonora Eyles 1924
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A certain strange, farawayness of thought is apparent, and a grave tenderness that is not quite like anything he had previously written.
Edward MacDowell Porte, John F 1922
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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:
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) Various 1887
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I have no further reason to deplore its farawayness.
My Friend Prospero Henry Harland 1883
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