In island biogeography, the distance an island is from a mainland source of colonizing organisms.

a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner

In the English law of negligence, the test of causation not only requires that the defendant was the cause in fact, but also requires that the loss or damage sustained by the claimant was not too remote. As with the policy issues in establishing that there was a duty of care and that that duty was breached, remoteness is designed as a further limit on a cause of action to ensure that the liability to pay damages is fairly placed on the defendant.

A sense of removal well away from urban and other developed areas into a rural landscape of little habitation

the property of being remote