FARNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does farness mean? 

• FARNESS (noun)
  The noun FARNESS has 1 sense:

1. the property of being remote

  Familiarity information: FARNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FARNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being remote

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

farawayness; farness; remoteness

Hypernyms ("farness" is a kind of...):

distance (the property created by the space between two objects or points)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "farness"):

far cry (distance estimated in terms of the audibility of a cry)

Antonym:

nearness (the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance)

Derivation:

far (located at a great distance in time or space or degree)

far (being of a considerable distance or length)