from the afrikaan's word meaning apartness 1930's- early 1940's.
Racial segregation in South Africa started under Dutch rule. Apartheid, which is an Afrikaans word meaning "apartness", was introduced in 1948.
The Latin prefix "dis-" typically indicates negation, reversal, or separation. It is used to convey a sense of apartness, removal, or lack of something.
Some other words for apart are aside, alone, cut off, and disassociated. Additional synonyms for apart are independent, separately, to one side, and exclusively.
Apartheid means apartness, and is the basic concept of racial descrimination in south africa. Whites were thought to be better than blacks. Now, however, it has been abolished due to the efforts of nelson mandela.
Apartheid ("apartness") was a policy of the South African government (National Party) (NP) from 1948 to 1994. The purpose was to keep the various races apart.
It means separateness and was the term used in South Africa for a system that forbade the people that were not European from attaining education or a reasonable standard of living. it kept the whites in charge and put the blacks in a position where they were officially inferior. It separated the races both socially, comercialy and residential
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 5 words with the pattern A--R---SS. That is, nine letter words with 1st letter A and 4th letter R and 8th letter S and 9th letter S. In alphabetical order, they are: alertness angriness apartness apertness awareness
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 11 words with the pattern A--R---S-. That is, nine letter words with 1st letter A and 4th letter R and 8th letter S. In alphabetical order, they are: alertness amoralism amoralist amorphism anarchise anarchism anarchist angriness apartness apertness awareness
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 6 words with the pattern -PAR---S-. That is, nine letter words with 2nd letter P and 3rd letter A and 4th letter R and 8th letter S. In alphabetical order, they are: apartness spareless spareness sparkiest sparkless sparriest
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 14 words with the pattern AP----E--. That is, nine letter words with 1st letter A and 2nd letter P and 7th letter E. In alphabetical order, they are: apartheid apartment apartness apertness apishness appealers appearers appeasers appellees appendent apprehend apprisers apprizers approvers
It meant without. The Old English word for with was mid.The old word with was used to mean against, or toward, in the sense we still use in phrases like to fight with someone, to be angry with someone; or it could mean apart from, separated, that is to say - not with! OE withutan (without) strengthened the sense of apartness by adding the second element, out. As the opposite of within, it is still used to mean outside, as in the Christmas carol "There is a green hill far away, without a city wall"