noun

• The condition of being far off; distance or remoteness.

  ‘across the Monmouthshire lowlands and into the farness of the mountains’

  More example sentences

  • ‘I cannot judge the farness of the house from the street.’
  • ‘A notion of nearness and farness imposes locality, and that in turn imposes neighborhoods.’
  • ‘In this magical moment, as the ink black sky was dominated by stellar diadems, as the Little Bear twinkled knowingly in the seemingly close farness of celestial majesty, everything made sense.’
  • ‘A major message of any representational photograph is its nearness or farness from the viewer in time.’
  • ‘If I look from a mountain, the things seen are vast in height and breadth, in proportion to the farness of the horizon.’

  Synonyms

  remoteness, farness