Awayness

Quick meaning: Awayness is a noun meaning The state or condition of being away; distance; remoteness; absence; absenteeism.

Meaning

The state or condition of being away; distance; remoteness; absence; absenteeism.

Example Sentences

Potentially, “awayness” is a messy category for analyzing a people's behavior.

These periods of awayness are not followed by manifestations of fatigue, and are usually terminated by a sudden [...]

It was the awayness of it that first attracted me to the place. The vast awayness from what I had called home up till the time I first stayed there — that was what made me decide to settle for good at Miss Carruthers's.

They describe the trances of the balian or seer of the village they studied most exhaustively as beginning with such "awayness," then passing into a period when "the seer exhibits emotions never otherwise expressed except on the stage [...]

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include distantness, farawayness, absentiality, apartness, removedness, asideness.

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