remoteness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]remoteness (countable and uncountable, plural remotenesses)
- 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.
Translations
[edit]quality of being remote
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