awayness

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.

1925, Aldous Huxley, Those barren leaves

These periods of awayness are not followed by manifestations of fatigue, and are usually terminated by a sudden [...]

1942, Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead, Balinese character, a photographic analysis

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 [...]

1960, Jane Belo, Trance in Bali

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, [...]

1991, Wilfred G. Cartey, Whispers from the Caribbean