Detachment

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Detachment \De*tach"ment\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]tachement.]
     1. The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being
        detached.
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     2. That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or


        part of a fleet sent from the main body on special
        service.
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              Troops . . . widely scattered in little detachments.
                                                    --Bancroft.
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     3. Abstraction from worldly objects; renunciation.
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              A trial which would have demanded of him a most
              heroic faith and the detachment of a saint. --J. H.
                                                    Newman.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  detachment
       n 1: avoiding emotional involvement [syn: {withdrawal}]
       2: the act of releasing from an attachment or connection [syn:
          {disengagement}]
       3: the state of being isolated or detached; "the insulation of
          England was preserved by the English Channel" [syn: {insulation},
           {insularity}, {insularism}]
       4: a small unit of troops of special composition
       5: coming apart [syn: {separation}, {breakup}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  348 Moby Thesaurus words for "detachment":
     Jim Crow, KP, Olympian detachment, abstraction, abulia, accidia,
     acedia, adjunct, age group, alienation, aloneness, aloofness,
     anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apartheid, apartness,
     apathy, army, army group, ataraxia, ataraxy, backwardness, band,
     bashfulness, battalion, battery, battle group, benumbedness, bevy,
     blah, blahs, blankness, body, boredom, breakup, brigade, bunch,
     cabal, cadre, carelessness, cast, casualness, catatonic stupor,
     celibacy, chill, chilliness, clearance, clique, cohort, coldness,
     column, comatoseness, combat command, combat team, company,
     complement, component, compulsion, constraint, contingent,
     coolness, corps, coterie, covey, crew, cross section, crowd,
     deactivation, dejection, demobilization, deportation, depression,
     detaching, detail, diaspora, disarticulation, disassociation,
     disbandment, discard, disconnectedness, disconnection,
     discontinuity, discreetness, discretion, disengagement,
     disintegration, disinterest, disinterestedness, disjointing,
     disjunction, dislocation, dismissal, disorganization, dispassion,
     dispassionateness, dispersal, dispersion, disposal, disposition,
     disregard, disregardfulness, dissolution, distance, disunion,
     division, divorce, divorcement, dole, dullness, easygoingness,
     ejection, elation, elimination, emotionalism, equitability,
     eradication, euphoria, evenhandedness, exile, expatriation,
     expressionlessness, expulsion, faction, fairness, field army,
     field train, file, fleet, flying column, folie du doute, fraction,
     frigidity, frostiness, gang, garrison, group, grouping, groupment,
     guardedness, heartlessness, hebetude, heedlessness, hopelessness,
     hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, iciness, impartiality,
     impassiveness, impassivity, impersonality, in-group,
     inaccessibility, inappetence, inattention, incoherence,
     incuriosity, incuriousness, indifference, indifferentism,
     indifferentness, indiscrimination, inexcitability, insensibility,
     insouciance, installment, intellectual inertia, introversion,
     isolation, isolationism, item, junta, justness, keeping apart,
     kitchen police, lack of affect, lack of appetite, lack of interest,
     lackadaisicalness, languidness, legion, lethargicalness, lethargy,
     liquidation, listlessness, loftiness, loneliness, loneness,
     lonesomeness, luxation, mania, maniple, melancholia,
     mental distress, mindlessness, mob, modesty, movement,
     moving apart, negligence, neutrality, nonchalance, numbness,
     objectivity, obsession, offishness, organization, ostracism,
     out-group, outfit, outlawing, outlawry, pack, parcel, part,
     particular, parting, partition, party, passiveness, passivity,
     pathological indecisiveness, peer group, percentage, phalanx,
     phlegm, phlegmaticalness, phlegmaticness, platoon, plucklessness,
     pococurantism, portion, posse, preoccupation, privacy, privatism,
     privatization, psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, purge,
     quadrant, quarantine, quarter, quota, random sample, rank, recess,
     recklessness, reclusion, regardlessness, regiment, release,
     remainder, remoteness, removal, repression, reserve, reservedness,
     resignation, resignedness, restraint, reticence, reticency,
     retirement, retreat, riddance, rupture, rustication, salon, sample,
     sampling, seclusion, secrecy, section, sector, segment,
     segmentation, selflessness, separateness, separating, separation,
     separatism, sequestration, set, severance, share,
     single blessedness, sloth, sluggishness, solitariness, solitude,
     sopor, soporifousness, spiritlessness, splendid isolation,
     split-up, spunklessness, squad, squadron, stable, standoffishness,
     stolidity, string, stupefaction, stupor, subdivision, subduedness,
     subgroup, subspecies, subtraction, supineness, suppression,
     suspension, tactical unit, task force, team, tic, torpidity,
     torpidness, torpor, train, tribe, troop, troupe, twitching,
     unaffability, unanxiousness, unapproachability, unbias,
     unbiasedness, unconcern, uncongeniality, undemonstrativeness,
     unexpansiveness, uninquisitiveness, uninterestedness, unit,
     unmindfulness, unopinionatedness, unprejudicedness,
     unresponsiveness, unselfishness, unsolicitousness, wing,
     withdrawal, withdrawnness, zoning