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faraway

 adjective
     
far‧a‧way
1 [only before noun] literary a long distance away [= distant]:
She dreamed of flying away to exotic faraway places.
faraway noises
2

a faraway look

an expression on your face which shows that you are not paying attention but thinking about something very different:
His eyes had a distant faraway look, like a sailor staring out to sea.
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