Meanings
- uncountableThe state, quality, or condition of being further; beyondness; continuation; expanse.
I watched the red lights of the taxi fuzz and blur and then vanish in the furtherness of night.
2005, Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram2 more examples
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.
1914, Vācaspatimiśra Patañjali, The Yoga-system of PatañjaliWhile 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.
2013, Elena Pulcini, Care of the World
Origin
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