apartness
1
6.7
- noun
- /əˈpɑrt.nəs/
:
separación
- It did not occur to Sarah to waken her mother and father if she was sick, although occasionally she went up to the door and leaned her ear against the panels to catch the indrawn, exhaled rhythms of their apartness from her in the big double bed.
- system of apartness
Examples
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This system of apartness effectively created two worlds: One white and the other Mexican, separate and unequal.
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The true weirdo often suffers for his "apartness," his "otherness."
Blog text (13) -
The idea of your own inner sovereignty, and the feeling of apartness, that I think stems from a history of differentness.
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It was the 1930s, and such information was not revealed; therefore, the man with dark eyes had an aura of apartness.
Academic text (2003) -
But, as Ozick observed, "More and more, apartness is perceived as the dominant aim, even the chief quality, of feminism."
Academic text (1993) -
The princess's defining trait is her apartness from the historical reality attempting to assimilate her.
Academic text (2001) -
He could revel in the delicious sensation of apartness that the gold-lit curtain bestowed, and that only the chatter of women interrupted.
Fiction book (2001) -
She refers to this act as "mute testimony to the irrefutable fact that I was an American, and it helped to negate in my mind the signs and symbols of inferiority and apartness."
Blog text (7) -
Intimacy calls for bodily apartness; true sociability is described consistently through spatial metaphors: "When you throw two stones into calm water so near that they break each other's undulations."
Academic text (2003) -
Araceli enjoyed her solitude, her apartness from the world, and she liked to think of working for the Torres-Thompson family as a kind of self-imposed exile from her previous, directionless life in Mexico City.
Synonyms
172
3.7
A state of being alone and cut off from other people physically or emotionally
89
2.6
The process of moving apart or staying apart
30
7.4
Feeling of being alone and separate from other people
8
7.8
A feeling of no longer being close to someone
5
6.5
Being by yourself and choosing quiet time instead of being with others
4
6.1
The act of separating something from the thing it is connected to
2
6.6
A situation where things are kept apart from others, for example work and personal life
2
9.4
Being separate from other places and having a narrow view of the world
1
5.6
Being clearly different from others
1
7.7
Feeling separate from a group or community
The state of being separate and clearly different from other things
A difference between people, groups, or places
A big difference between things that are not similar
A situation where groups are split and do not work together
Feeling not part of a group or community
A place or group that is cut off and surrounded by a different area
A way of thinking that keeps a country apart and closed to outside ideas
Antonyms
How Separate
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Apartness comes from apart, which is made of a- and part, where part means 'a piece' and a- gives the idea 'not together' or 'away'. So apartness is the quality of being 'separate' or 'away from others', which explains its modern meaning.