• Furtherness

    Origin

    From further + -ness.

    Full definition of furtherness

    Noun

    furtherness

    (uncountable)
    1. The state, quality, or condition of being further; beyondness; continuation; expanse.
      • 1914, Patañjali, VācaspatimiÅ›ra, The Yoga-system of Patañjali:The coincidence with its own point-of-space is that digit of time belonging to the myrobolan which, with respect to its own point-of-space, is characterized by a kind of mutation in terms of nearness or furtherness.
      • 2005, Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram:I watched the red lights of the taxi fuzz and blur and then vanish in the furtherness of night.
      • 2013, Elena Pulcini, Care of the World:While the latter were pushed by a Faustian yearning for the infinite and furtherness, on the contrary we, the first Titans, are pushed by the 'desperate desire' to reinstate that lost limit that restores our human condition.
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