Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not affording or allowing a distant or extensive view; dull; hazy.
- Specifically
- Appearing as if near by; without effect of distance, as a landscape in some states of light and atmosphere in which all the outlines are hard and clear-cut, and the usual bluish haze tinting hills and other objects is lacking.
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Examples
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Information and communication technology (ICT) is quickly changing the world, creating distanceless, borderless world of instantaneous communications.
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She got quite close, in that directionless, distanceless way that minds have of drawing near or apart from one another.
Dark Mirror Diane Duane 1993
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Volcanoes and mountains lined the very outer edges of the vast whiteness but in the gaps between the volcanoes, perspective was completely redundant and the blue sky and white salt merged into a distanceless blur.
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Expanding — and flowed, flowered for him, fluid neon origami trick, the unfolding of his distanceless home, his country, transparent 3D chessboard extending to infinity.”
I Am George Jetson 2007
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Instead of opening up new possibilities for rich and multi-faceted interaction with events once distant from the purview of most individuals, the abolition of distance tended to generate a “uniform distanceless” in which fundamentally distinct objects became part of a bland homogeneous experiential mass (Heidegger, 1971 [1950]:
Globalization Scheuerman, William 2006
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