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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The state or condition of being away; distance; remoteness; absence; absenteeism..
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.
These periods of awayness are not followed by manifestations of fatigue, and are usually terminated by a sudden [...]
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 [...]
Clearly then, two separate spaces, the countries of origin — the Caribbean — and the countries to which they have migrated — England, Canada, the United States — become the figural polarities linking together the condition of awayness, [...]
Potentially, “awayness” is a messy category for analyzing a people's behavior.
Use awayness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Awayness means The state or condition of being away; distance; remoteness; absence; absenteeism..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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