Distance vs Awayness - What's the difference?
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(lb) The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
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*(Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)
*:ten years' distance between one and the other
*(John Playfair) (1748-1819)
*:the writings of Euclid at the distance of two thousand years
The difference; the subjective measure between two quantities.
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Remoteness of place; a remote place.
*(Washington Irving) (1783-1859)
*:easily managed from a distance
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*:'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.
*(Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
*:[He] waits at distance till he hears from Cato.
Remoteness in succession or relation.
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A space marked out in the last part of a racecourse.
*(w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)
*:the horse that ran the whole field out of distance
The entire amount of progress to an objective.
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A withholding of intimacy; alienation; variance.
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*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:Setting them [factions] at distance , or at least distrust amongst themselves.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:On the part of Heaven, / Now alienated, distance and distaste.
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*:In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.
The remoteness or reserve which respect requires; hence, respect; ceremoniousness.
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:I hope your modesty / Will know what distance to the crown is due.
*(Francis Atterbury) (1663-1732)
*:'Tis by respect and distance that authority is upheld.
To move away (from) someone or something.
To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind.
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 71:
The state or condition of being away; distance; remoteness; absence; absenteeism.
* 1925 , Aldous Huxley, Those barren leaves :
* 1942 , Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead, Balinese character, a photographic analysis :
* 1960 , Jane Belo, Trance in Bali :
* 1991 , Wilfred G. Cartey, Whispers from the Caribbean :
* 2006 , Jill B. R. Cherneff, Eve Hochwald, Visionary observers: anthropological inquiry and education :
As a noun awayness is
the state or condition of being away; distance; remoteness; absence; absenteeism.distance
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* (l) (archaic)Noun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly,
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* aesthetic distance * angular distance * automatic distance control * braking distance * Cartesian distance * critical distance * distance formula * distance learning * distance vision * distancer * edit distance * effort distance * Euclidean distance * focal distance * go the distance * Hamming distance * horizon distance * interarch distance * interplant distance * keep at a distance * keep one's distance * Levenshtein distance * long-distance * luminosity distance * mean distance between failure * middle-distance * polar distance * resistance distance * self-distance * short-distance * skip distance * social distance * spitting distance * striking distance * string distance * taxicab distance * walking distance * zenith distanceVerb
- He distanced himself from the comments made by some of his colleagues.
- Then the horse, with muscles strong as steel, distanced the sound.
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Noun
(-)- It was the awayness' of it that first attracted me to the place. The vast ' awayness from what I had called home up till the time I first stayed there — that was what made me decide to settle for good at Miss Carruthers's.
- These periods of awayness are not followed by manifestations of fatigue, and are usually terminated by a sudden [...]
- They describe the trances of the balian or seer of the village they studied most exhaustively as beginning with such "awayness ," then passing into a period when "the seer exhibits emotions never otherwise expressed except on the stage [...]
- Clearly then, two separate spaces, the countries of origin — the Caribbean — and the countries to which they have migrated — England, Canada, the United States — become the figural polarities linking together the condition of awayness , [...]
- Potentially, “awayness ” is a messy category for analyzing a people's behavior.