Crossword clues for remoteness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Remote \Re*mote"\ (r?-m?t"), a. [Compar. Remoter (-?r); superl. Remotest.] [L. remotus, p. p. of removere to remove. See Remove.]
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Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands.
Places remote enough are in Bohemia.
--Shak.Remote from men, with God he passed his days.
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Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related; -- in various figurative uses. Specifically:
Not agreeing; alien; foreign. ``All these propositions, how remote soever from reason.''
--Locke.Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.
Separate; abstracted. ``Wherever the mind places itself by any thought, either amongst, or remote from, all bodies.''
--Locke.Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant. ``From the effect to the remotest cause.''
--Granville.Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.
(Bot.) Separated by intervals greater than usual. [1913 Webster] -- Re*mote"ly, adv. -- Re*mote"ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The quality of being remote.
WordNet
n. the property of being remote [syn: farness, farawayness] [ant: nearness]
a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner [syn: aloofness, standoffishness, withdrawnness]
Wikipedia
Remoteness may refer to:
- Remote (location), inaccessible places on land and places in the ocean which are far from land
- Distance
- Remoteness (legal), the legal concept of how remotely possible a consequence is (or should have been foreseen to be)
Usage examples of "remoteness".
The extreme remoteness of the place was apparent from the veritable sea of tenantless: mountains which formed the background and stretched away toward a.
What the whisperer implied was beyond all human belief--yet were not the other things still farther beyond, and less preposterous only because of their remoteness from tangible concrete proof?
That seething, half-luminous cloud background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness far more than terrestrially spatial, and gave appalling reminders of the utter remoteness, separateness, desolation, and aeon-long death of this untrodden and unfathomed austral world.
Then from the farthermost regions of remoteness, the sound softly glided into existence.
Viscous obstacles were clawed through in rapid succession, and at length I felt that we had been borne to realms of greater remoteness than any we had previously known.
Despite the isolation and remoteness of the base, he said, the ocean surveillance compound was also closely guarded by a detachment of U.
He was smiling faintly, but there was an odd aura of remoteness surrounding him, and though he and his wife stood side by side, they were not touching.
Or had Caroline meant that her daughter needed an advocate to balance the remoteness of her father?
He emerged and shut the door, his mask of remoteness firmly back in place.
The value of the book, like the account of Alexander the Oracle-Monger, lies in the remoteness of the frauds and delusions described.
Because of its remoteness, Titan has attracted the interest of exobiologists only recently, but it holds the promise of a long-term fascination.
Yet in spite of its crudity, and in spite of its remoteness, it is perhaps not wholly irrelevant.
Strange that in my remoteness I seemed to feel, as never before, the vital presence of Earth as of a creature alive but tranced and obscurely yearning to wake.
Thus, in spite of their remoteness each from each, the stars often looked curiously like minute living creatures taking cognizance of one another from afar.
On his part he seemed forgetful of the existence of anybody but himself, forgetful almost of himself as well: sitting low in his great chair, his body as stirless as it were bound by some spell of black magic, his far gaze probing unfathomable remotenesses of thought.