remoteness

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remote +‎ -ness

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remoteness (countable and uncountable, plural remotenesses)

  1. The quality of being remote.
    • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 10:
      Then again there was a period of what is sometimes called Euhemerism - the theory that the gods and goddesses had actually once been men and women, historical characters round whom a halo of romance and remoteness had gathered.

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