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REMOTENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does remoteness mean? 

REMOTENESS (noun)
  The noun REMOTENESS has 2 senses:

1. the property of being remoteplay

2. a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in mannerplay

  Familiarity information: REMOTENESS used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


REMOTENESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being remote

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

farawayness; farness; remoteness

Hypernyms ("remoteness" is a kind of...):

distance (the property created by the space between two objects or points)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "remoteness"):

far cry (distance estimated in terms of the audibility of a cry)

Derivation:

remote (inaccessible and sparsely populated)

remote (located far away spatially)

remote (separate or apart in time)

remote (very unlikely)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

aloofness; remoteness; standoffishness; withdrawnness

Hypernyms ("remoteness" is a kind of...):

unsociability; unsociableness (an unsociable disposition; avoiding friendship or companionship)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "remoteness"):

unapproachability (a disposition to be unapproachable; unfriendly and inaccessible)


 Context examples 


He now saw it again; but it had taken upon itself a remarkable remoteness.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Because of its remoteness, Haumea takes 284 years to rotate around the Sun, in an elliptical orbit.

(Brazil astronomers discover ring around dwarf planet near Pluto, Agência Brasil)

But he was oppressed always by her remoteness.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Their remoteness and unpunctuality, or their exorbitant charges and frauds, will be drawing forth bitter lamentations.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Pluto's remoteness and small size make it difficult to observe, but in July of 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will be the first to visit Pluto and Charon, and will provide the most detailed observations to date.

(Cracks in Pluto's moon could indicate it once had an underground ocean, NASA)

The two things clearest in my mind were, that a remoteness had come upon the old Blunderstone life—which seemed to lie in the haze of an immeasurable distance; and that a curtain had for ever fallen on my life at Murdstone and Grinby's.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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