Definition of "distantness" []

• The state or quality of being distant or remote. (noun)

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• "For the kid to want Daddy's approval it must respect Daddy, and being garbage, Daddy can make sure that he is respected only by remaining aloof, by distantness, by acting on the precept of ` familiarity breeds contempt ', which is, of course, true, if one is contemptible."
• "Stories that made his eyes shine, then fade into a distantness."
• ""Whenever attention in the West turns to the distantness of the end to the Afghan war, pressure is publicly ratcheted up on Pakistan to 'do more.'""