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Definition of 'awayness'English
Noun
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The state or condition of being away; distance; remoteness; absence; absenteeism.
* 1925 , Aldous Huxley, Those barren leaves :
- 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.
* 1942 , Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead, Balinese character, a photographic analysis :
- These periods of awayness are not followed by manifestations of fatigue, and are usually terminated by a sudden [...]
* 1960 , Jane Belo, Trance in Bali :
- 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 [...]
* 1991 , Wilfred G. Cartey, Whispers from the Caribbean :
- 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 , [...]
* 2006 , Jill B. R. Cherneff, Eve Hochwald, Visionary observers: anthropological inquiry and education :
- Potentially, “awayness ” is a messy category for analyzing a people's behavior.
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