When used to describe how two people are related (i e , once removed ), this indicates different generations For example, two people with the same grandparents are first cousins, but the child of your cousin is your first cousin once removed because you are of different generations See Also: Consanguinity
taken out of or separated from; "possibility is achievability, abstracted from achievement"- A N Whitehead
If you say that an idea or situation is far removed from something, you mean that it is very different from it. He found it hard to concentrate on conversation so far removed from his present preoccupations
far distant in space; "distant lands"; "remote stars"; "a remote outpost of civilization"; "a hideaway far removed from towns and cities"