[f. APART used as adj. + -NESS.] The quality of being or standing apart, either locally or in character.
1858. Hawthorne, Fr. & It. Jrnls., II. 24. A mild, benevolent coldness and apartness.
1879. Stopf. Brooke, Milton, iii. 55. Its tone of apartness from strife was not long the tone of Milton.
