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Awayness

noun
1.
The state of being elsewhere than in particular place.





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"Awayness" Quotes from Famous Books



... went ashore, Cousin Katherine only once or twice. But they squattered about in the everlasting summer of tropic harbours, fringed with palms and low, dim, red-roofed, tropic houses—just sampled it all, the colour, and light, and beauty, and far awayness of it—and then, when the fancy took them, got up steam and slipped out again to sea. And the name of the yacht is the Reprieve. That's in the ...
— The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet
... He found a far-awayness in her mood which made him keep back his proposal for a while. He did not admire her the less in her periods of exaltation, but he felt less secure of her when she soared into a region whither he could not follow. He hesitated, and discussed ...
— The Faith Doctor - A Story of New York • Edward Eggleston


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