remoteness
Noun
Meaning
a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner
the property of being remote
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The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity of Spencer, remoteness of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
He looked around the landscape. Drenched in the golden haze of late afternoon it seemed wonderfully tranquil and beautiful, though permeated with a sense of remoteness and even melancholy, like a scene remembered from one's youth.
An infinite remoteness underlies us all.
Rus! Rus! I see you, from my lovely enchanted remoteness I see you.
Being as we know it, the world as we come upon it, stands before us as otherness, remoteness. For all our efforts to exploit or comprehend it, it remains evasive, mysteriously immune. Being is unbelievable.
Pure and absolute truth can only be found beyond all its possible expressions; these expressions, as such, cannot claim the attributes of this truth, their relative remoteness from it is expressed by their differentiation and multiplicity, by which they are strictly limited.