What is another word for Apartness?

Pronunciation: [ɐpˈɑːtnəs] (IPA)

Apartness is the quality of being separate or detached from others or things. Other synonyms for apartness include seclusion, isolation, solitude, sequestration, detachment, and segregation. Seclusion implies intentionally removing oneself from the company of others, while isolation suggests being separated from others due to external factors such as geography. Solitude refers to the state of being alone and enjoying one's own company. Sequestration implies being cut off or separated from others by restriction. Detachment describes a lack of emotional involvement or connection with others. Segregation refers to the forced separation of individuals or groups based on characteristics such as race or religion.

What are the hypernyms for Apartness?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Apartness

And surely, as the thought did stir in me, it did be of beauty that we did be both of us true unto the other, in that life, and I never to have kist a maid, until that I kist Mine Own, and she to have been likewise, and to have fended all men from her, because that they did be Strangers unto her inwardness, and so we two to be so utter together, both in that our spirits did be knit, being each the complement of the other, and because that we had no secret pains of remembered things, to set any Apartness between our hearts.
"The Night Land"
William Hope Hodgson
True, he had always understood that he was the best boy in town and he intended to be a minister when he grew up; but he had never before comprehended the full extent of his sanctity, and, from that fraught moment onward, he had an almost theatrical sense of his set-Apartness.
"Penrod and Sam"
Booth Tarkington
She was equal to Pitt, in her seeming careless Apartness; the difference was, that with her it was seeming, and with him reality.
"A Red Wallflower"
Susan Warner

Related words: apartness, isolation, loneliness, isolationism

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