awayness

NOUN
  1. the state of being elsewhere than in particular place
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How To Use awayness In A Sentence

  • However, there is a kind of awayness where the individual gives others the impression, whether warranted or not, that he is not aware that he is “away.” Behavior in Public Places
  • A certain strange, farawayness of thought is apparent, and a grave tenderness that is not quite like anything he had previously written. Edward MacDowell
  • Just to test her, for there is something in the animation of her face and the farawayness of the eye that makes you suspect her sincerity, you say: The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X)
  • Her brain willed her fingers to conquer their heaviness, their farawayness, and write: Captivity
  • In the spring I planted some exotic lettuce varieties, which were kind of sharp and went to seed during all my house-sitting awayness. Archive 2006-07-01
  • I didn't have words to describe the giddy sense of bigness, of far awayness, that overwhelmed me. She Sank Into the Sand
  • It had a wonder and a far – awayness, even here in the heart of Sydney. Kangaroo
  • I have no further reason to deplore its farawayness. My Friend Prospero
  • While the silent or brown study kind of awayness is perhaps the main type, other kinds are also observable. Behavior in Public Places
  • Certainly, at first, as one passes into the strange vestibule which intervenes still between the front and the interior of the shaîtya, one does not think at all -- one only _feels_ the dim sense of mildness raying out from the great faces of the elephants, and of mysterious far-awayness conveyed by the bizarre postures of the sculptured figures on the walls. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
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