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Etymology edit

From odległy +‎ -ość. First attested in 1570.[1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

odległość f (related adjective odległościowy)

  1. distance (amount of space between two points) [+ od (genitive) = from what]
    Synonym: dystans
  2. distance (amount of time between two events)
    Synonyms: dystans, rozpiętość
  3. (music) distance (difference in pitch between two tones)
    Synonym: interwał

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Trivia edit

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), odległość is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 49 times in scientific texts, 20 times in news, 3 times in essays, 11 times in fiction, and 3 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 86 times, making it the 742nd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References edit

  1. ^ odległość”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish], 2010-2023
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990), “odległość”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 315

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