Remotion /(r?-m?"sh?n)/

Re·mo·tion

Remotion

n.
  1. The act of removing; removal. [Obs.]
    This remotion of the duke and her Is practice only.
  2. The state of being remote; remoteness. [R.]
    The whitish gleam [of the stars] was the mask conferred by the enormity of their remotion.