remoteness  /rim'otnəs/

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資料來源(1): pydict data [pydict]

  remoteness
  遠離,遠隔,細微

資料來源(2): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Remote \Re*mote"\ (r?-m?t"), a. [Compar. {Remoter} (-?r);
     superl. {Remotest}.] [L. remotus, p. p. of removere to
     remove. See {Remove}.]
     1. Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; --
        said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages;
        remote lands.
  
              Places remote enough are in Bohemia.  --Shak.
  
              Remote from men, with God he passed his days.
                                                    --Parnell.
  
     2. Hence, removed; not agreeing, according, or being related;
        -- in various figurative uses. Specifically:
        (a) Not agreeing; alien; foreign. ``All these
            propositions, how remote soever from reason.''
            --Locke.
        (b) Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection
            or consanguinity.
        (c) Separate; abstracted. ``Wherever the mind places
            itself by any thought, either amongst, or remote from,
            all bodies.'' --Locke.
        (d) Not proximate or acting directly; primary; distant.
            ``From the effect to the remotest cause.''
            --Granville.
        (e) Not obvious or sriking; as, a remote resemblance.
  
     3. (Bot.) Separated by intervals greater than usual. --
        {Re*mote"ly}, adv. -- {Re*mote"ness}, n.

資料來源(3): WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]

  remoteness
       n 1: the property of being remote [syn: {farness}, {farawayness}]
            [ant: {nearness}]
       2: a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner
          [syn: {aloofness}, {standoffishness}, {withdrawnness}]