Antonyms for remoteness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ri-moht |
| Phonetic Transcription : rɪˈmoʊt |
Definition of remoteness
Origin :- mid-15c., from Middle French remot or directly from Latin remotus "afar off, remote, distant in place," past participle of removere "move back or away" (see remove (v.)). Related: Remotely; remoteness. Remote control "fact of controlling from a distance" is recorded from 1904; as a device which allows this from 1920.
- noun distance
- noun detachment
- All others, so far as she was concerned, existed only on the sufferance of remoteness.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- I confess that there was something eerie in the isolation and remoteness of St. nimie.
- Extract from : « The Roof of France » by Matilda Betham-Edwards
- There was, indeed, a certain charm in our remoteness from the outer world.
- Extract from : « With Manchesters in the East » by Gerald B. Hurst
- He is here framing an ideal, without realising its remoteness.
- Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford
- The remoteness of the situation gave the very boldness of his plan feasibility.
- Extract from : « The Strollers » by Frederic S. Isham
- Despite his strangeness and remoteness, Apicius is not dead by any means.
- Extract from : « Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome » by Apicius
- The origin of this family fades away in the remoteness of antiquity.
- Extract from : « Henry IV, Makers of History » by John S. C. Abbott
- The remoteness of the locality would have robbed the statement of all interest.
- Extract from : « Notes on My Books » by Joseph Conrad
- She was back from the remoteness of her meditation, very much so indeed.
- Extract from : « The Arrow of Gold » by Joseph Conrad
- I had an idea that their distance from me was as nothing to my remoteness from them.
- Extract from : « The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 1 (of 10) » by Edith Wharton
Synonyms for remoteness
- absence
- aloofness
- ambit
- amplitude
- area
- bit
- breadth
- brown study
- coldness
- compass
- coolness
- country mile
- disinterestedness
- distance
- dreaminess
- expanse
- extension
- extent
- far piece
- farness
- gap
- good ways
- heavens
- hinterland
- horizon
- impartiality
- incuriosity
- indifference
- lapse
- length
- neutrality
- nonpartisanship
- objective
- objectivity
- orbit
- outpost
- outskirts
- preoccupation
- provinces
- purlieu
- purview
- radius
- reach
- remove
- reverie
- scope
- separation
- size
- sky
- space
- span
- spread
- stretch
- sweep
- unconcern
- way
- width
- woolgathering
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