apartheidness

apartheidness

English

Etymology

apartheid +‎ -ness

Noun

apartheidness (uncountable)

1. The condition or quality of being like apartheid.
   • 1965, Diamond Jenness, Eskimo Administration: III. Labrador, Issues 16-18, page 72:

     But Nature mocks at our "apartheidness"; incessantly she erodes our boundaries, forcing us to erect new and still newer ones and perpetually to re-adjust the transitory ideas that led to their creation.

   • 1967, Geography and National Power, page 44:

     And attesting to the continued spread of social democracy is the strong demand to integrate the public with the private schools and eradicate social apartheidness.

   • 1971, William M. Birenbaum, Something for Everybody is Not Enough: An Educator's Search for His Education, Random House (1971), page 266:

     The wall, the enclave, the introversion, the apartheidness of the whole operation imbued the typical American urban campus with the same ghetto qualities and mentality that American society has imposed upon the territories where its black, Spanish-speaking and other urban minorities live.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:apartheidness.