Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being far off; distance; remoteness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare The state of being far off; distance; remoteness.

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  • noun The state of being far off, or the degree to which something is far; distance, span; remoteness

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  • noun the property of being remote

Etymologies

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From Middle English fernesse, from Old English feornes ("distance"), equivalent to far +‎ -ness.

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