"awayness" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1925, Aldous Huxley, Those barren leaves",
          "text": "It was the awayness of it that first attracted me to the place. The vast awayness from what I had called home up till the time I first stayed there — that was what made me decide to settle for good at Miss Carruthers's.",
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          "text": "These periods of awayness are not followed by manifestations of fatigue, and are usually terminated by a sudden [...]",
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          "ref": "1960, Jane Belo, Trance in Bali",
          "text": "They describe the trances of the balian or seer of the village they studied most exhaustively as beginning with such \"awayness,\" then passing into a period when \"the seer exhibits emotions never otherwise expressed except on the stage [...]",
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          "text": "Clearly then, two separate spaces, the countries of origin — the Caribbean — and the countries to which they have migrated — England, Canada, the United States — become the figural polarities linking together the condition of awayness, [...]",
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          "ref": "2006, Jill B. R. Cherneff, Eve Hochwald, Visionary observers: anthropological inquiry and education",
          "text": "Potentially, “awayness” is a messy category for analyzing a people's behavior.",
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        "The state or condition of being away; distance; remoteness; absence; absenteeism."
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