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-heid

state or condition

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Historically accurate apartheid-era South African public facility circa1960: enforced segregation divides a well-maintained entrance used by white adults from a neglected entrance used by Black adults, a uniformed official enforces the barrier.
noun

apartheid

uh-PAR-tyte/əˈpɑːrtaɪt/

A system of legally enforced racial segregation and discrimination.

Etymology
apartDutchseparate
+heidDutchstate or condition

Literally “separateness,” apartheid turned a general condition of being separate into the name of a political system enforcing racial segregation and inequality.

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