far-flungness

English

Etymology

From far-flung +‎ -ness.

Noun

far-flungness (uncountable)

  1. The state of being far-flung.
    • 1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xxv:
      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.
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