remoteness
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6.3
- noun
- /rɪˈmoʊtnəs/
:
lejanía
- Distance from the core, however, may contribute to the feeling of remoteness and the lower levels of integration experienced in Aceh, Irian Jaya, East Nusa Tenggara, and East Timor.
And what was happening, too, was that was compounding this remoteness in him, which was sort of constitutional, always part of him.
- And what was happening, too, was that was compounding this remoteness in him, which was sort of constitutional, always part of him.
Examples
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And what was happening, too, was that was compounding this remoteness in him, which was sort of constitutional, always part of him.
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Hence, much history is written with an emotional remoteness that fails to capture the deeply human aspects of some of the sources cited in the footnotes.
Academic text (1997) -
There is a remoteness in his speech.
Fiction book (1995) -
Their voices sang with a certain remoteness into the clear air...
Academic text (2003) -
The same note there gives a sense of coldness and remoteness.
Blog text (19) -
Just the habitual remoteness that the office called out in him, and a cool impatience.
Fiction book (1998) -
Castaneda's books spoke to an increasing disgruntlement with the traditional academic paradigms and their remoteness from individuals' lifeworlds.
Academic text (1992) -
When Barack Obama was inaugurated, in a great national celebration, about a year after I returned from the Northeast to live here, my strongest feeling was one of remoteness from the event, a sense that American history was happening, as it almost always has, somewhere else.
Academic text (2012) -
Its charismatic leader was a proud murmurer, a Belgian with an old-world gentleness and remoteness of manner.
Academic text (2010) -
His remoteness made it difficult for others to connect with him on a personal level.
Synonyms
129
5.4
A feeling of not being close to someone
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7.2
A feeling of being distant from other people and not friendly
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7.4
A feeling of being separate from other people and the world
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8.8
Being unfriendly and distant with other people
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8.2
A tendency to live alone and avoid social contact
A way of acting toward other people that is distant and not friendly
A habit of staying quiet and keeping away from other people
Quiet behaviour that does not show feelings or thoughts openly
Antonyms
How Aloof
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Remoteness comes from the parts re- meaning 'back' and move meaning 'to move', the same root you see in remove. So remoteness can be thought of as 'moving back' from others, which explains why it means being distant or unsympathetic in manner.