furtherness

furtherness

English

Etymology

From further +‎ -ness.

Noun

furtherness (uncountable)

1. The state, quality, or condition of being further; beyondness; continuation; expanse.
   • 1914, Patañjali, Vācaspatimiśra, The Yoga-system of Patañjali:

     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.

   • 2005, Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram:

     I watched the red lights of the taxi fuzz and blur and then vanish in the furtherness of night.

   • 2013, Elena Pulcini, Care of the World:

     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.