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English

Etymology

From détachement

Noun

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


Translations

separation


indifference


impartiallity


military unit


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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.
[1913 Webster]

2. That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or
part of a fleet sent from the main body on special
service.
[1913 Webster]

Troops . . . widely scattered in little detachments.
--Bancroft.
[1913 Webster]

3. Abstraction from worldly objects; renunciation.
[1913 Webster]

A trial which would have demanded of him a most
heroic faith and the detachment of a saint. --J. H.
Newman.
[1913 Webster]
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
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bashfulness
, battalion , battery , battle group , benumbedness , bevy ,
blah
, blahs , blankness , body , boredom , breakup , brigade , bunch ,
cabal
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celibacy
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column
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complement
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coolness
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deactivation
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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
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division
, divorce , divorcement , dole , dullness , easygoingness ,
ejection
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eradication
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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
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pococurantism
, portion , posse , preoccupation , privacy , privatism ,
privatization
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quadrant
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recklessness
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remainder
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resignation
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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


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