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English

Etymology

From détachement

Noun

The action of detaching; separation.
The state of being detached or disconnected; insulation.
Indifference to the concerns of others; aloofness.
Absence of bias; impartiality; objectivity.
The separation of a military unit from the main body for particular purpose or a special mission.
The unit so dispatched.
A permanent unit organized for special duty|duties.
Any smaller portion of a main body separately employed.

Translations

separation

Dutch: scheiding, losraking

indifference

Dutch: afstandelijkheid, gereserveerdheid

impartiallity

Dutch: onpartijdigheid

military unit

Dutch: detachering, detachement

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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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WordNet 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]

Moby Dictionary
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