Home › Words › A › apartnessapartnessapartness means the state or quality of being apart.EtymologyFrom apart + -ness. Compare West Frisian apartens (“apartness”).nounThe state or quality of being apart.e.g.“Families and couples “need a certain balance of togetherness and apartness, […]” — 2020 March 19, Kristen Rogers, “Do I have ‘cabin fever?’ What it is, how to ‘cure’ it”, in CNN:The result or product of being apart.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.separateness 77% match — The property of being separate. vs apartness →separatedness 76% match — The property of being separated. vs apartness →apart 71% match — Placed separately (in regard to space or time). vs apartness →differentness 70% match — The state or quality of being different. vs apartness →asunderness 70% match — The state or quality of being asunder. vs apartness →separableness 70% match — The quality of being separable. vs apartness →estrangedness 66% match — The state of being estranged; estrangement. vs apartness →distantness 66% match — The state or quality of being distant or remote. vs apartness →