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remoteness|rɪˈməʊtnɪs|
[-ness.]
a. The state of being remote, in various senses.
a1613Overbury Observ. 17 Prov. (1626) 2 The remotenesse of their Master from them. 1643Milton Divorce 8 The absence and remotenes of a helper. 1666Dryden Ann. Mirab. Let. Sir R. Howard, Anything that shows remoteness of thought or labour in the writer. 1702Addison Dial. Medals ii. 141 His obscurities..generally arise from the remoteness of the Customs, Persons, and Things he alludes to. 1744Berkeley Siris §25 The timber, by its remoteness from water carriage, is of small value. 1776Adam Smith W.N. v. ii. II. 433 The term..ought not to be a great deal longer than what was necessary for that purpose; lest the remoteness of the interest should discourage too much this attention. 1830Herschel Stud. Nat. Philos. 279 The same reasoning which places the stars at such immeasurable remoteness, exalts them..into glorious bodies. 1883Black Shandon Bells xxvi, The papers..seemed a little sad sometimes... There is a kind of remoteness about them.
b. A remote region; = remote n. b. nonce-use.
1880‘Mark Twain’ Tramp Abroad xxxii. 345 Switzerland, and many other regions which were unvisited and unknown remotenesses a hundred years ago, are in our days a buzzing hive of restless strangers every summer. |