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far-flungness en · NOUN

Etymology

From far-flung + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state of being far-flung.
    • The far-flungness of the word, the phenomenological pleasure of finding it variously transformed by Ransom's modernity and Beowulf’s venerability made me feel vaguely something for which again I only found the words years later. 1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xxv: