farness
IPA: fˈɑrnʌs
noun
- The state of being far off, or the degree to which something is far; distance, span; remoteness
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Examples of "farness" in Sentences
- But that nearness is better than farness I know: 122
- In all farness, he was looking for an excuse to call it quits.
- But so much the further from Thee, as the unliker Thee; for it is not farness of place.
- Good illustration of the depth of field and scaling by building up an essence of nearness and farness.
- Your right it's not terribly fare, but if this is about farness, there should be around 5 million ST's in american businesses.
- The irruption of the horses — illustrating their farness, their closeness, their threat, their beauty — shows them to be, as Armitage says, "unbiddable."
- 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.
- 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").
- 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.
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