"furtherness" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From further + -ness. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|further|ness}} further + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} furtherness (uncountable)
  1. The state, quality, or condition of being further; beyondness; continuation; expanse. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-furtherness-en-noun-mkYJ0cJx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness

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          "ref": "1914, Vācaspatimiśra Patañjali, The Yoga-system of Patañjali",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "I watched the red lights of the taxi fuzz and blur and then vanish in the furtherness of night.",
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          "ref": "2013, Elena Pulcini, Care of the World",
          "text": "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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