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
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Examples
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The irruption of the horses — illustrating their farness, their closeness, their threat, their beauty — shows them to be, as Armitage says, "unbiddable."
Vendler on Armitage: the willingness not to make a point…not to be witty 2009
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The irruption of the horses — illustrating their farness, their closeness, their threat, their beauty — shows them to be, as Armitage says, "unbiddable."
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They were so dark a gray that they seemed brown, and there were a farness and alertness of vision in them as of bright questing through profounds of space.
CHAPTER VII 2010
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In all farness, he was looking for an excuse to call it quits.
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Good illustration of the depth of field and scaling by building up an essence of nearness and farness.
Watery Wednesday: Beach Scene floreta 2009
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Your right it's not terribly fare, but if this is about farness, there should be around 5 million ST's in american businesses.
Why Some People Do Not Read Poetry Merwin, W.S. 2009
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But that nearness is better than farness I know: 122
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Through one of those hyphenations which are characteristic of his style as a philosopher and writer, Heidegger turns Entfernung ("distance") into its opposite, Ent-fernung ("undoing of farness").
Archive 2007-04-01 enowning 2007
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This wordplay leads Heidegger to the thesis--analogous to and derived from the priority of Zuhandenheit ("ready to hand") over Vorhandenheit ("present at hand")--that, from an existential point of view, closeness (the result of an undoing of farness) has priority over distance.
Archive 2007-04-01 enowning 2007
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But so much the further from Thee, as the unliker Thee; for it is not farness of place.
The Confessions 1999
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