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distance | farness |

As a noun farness is

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

distance

English

(wikipedia distance)

Alternative forms

* (l) (archaic)

Noun

  • (lb) The amount of space between two points, usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily) measured along a straight line.
  • :
  • *, chapter=5
    • , title= 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,
  • Length or interval of time.
  • *(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
  • * (1777-1844)
  • *:'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.

    • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * 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 distance

    Related terms

    * distant

    Verb

  • To move away (from) someone or something.
    • He distanced himself from the comments made by some of his colleagues.
  • To leave at a distance; to outpace, leave behind.
  • * 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 71:
    • Then the horse, with muscles strong as steel, distanced the sound.

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    farness

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The state of being far off, or the degree to which something is far; distance, span; remoteness
  • :* {{quote-book, year=1918, author=William James, title=The Principles of Psychology, page=217, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=VnN9AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA217
    • , passage=If I look from a mountain, the things seen are vast in height and breadth, in proportion to the farness of the horizon.}}
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1980 , year_published=1998 , edition=Expanded , editor= , author=Russel Hoban , title=Riddley Walker , chapter= , url= , genre=SciFi , publisher= , isbn=978-0-253-21234-4 , page= , passage=It's about the same farness from Cambry … }}
  • :* {{quote-magazine
    • , date= , year=2008 , month= , first= , last= , author=Lincoln Caplan , coauthors= , title=Who Cares About Executive Supremacy? , volume=77 , issue=1 , page=20 , magazine=American Scholar , publisher= , issn= citation , passage=… the view of presidential power asserted by the administration of George W. Bush stands out for the farness of its far-reaching scope: … }}

    Synonyms

    * distance * remoteness * remove