'Detachment' definitions:
Definition of 'detachment'
From: WordNet
noun
Avoiding emotional involvement [syn: withdrawal, detachment]
noun
The act of releasing from an attachment or connection [syn: detachment, disengagement]
noun
The state of being isolated or detached; "the insulation of England was preserved by the English Channel" [syn: insulation, insularity, insularism, detachment]
noun
A small unit of troops of special composition
noun
Coming apart [syn: separation, breakup, detachment]
Definition of 'Detachment'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'detachment'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Jim Crow,
- junta,
- justness,
- keeping apart,
- kitchen police,
- KP,
- 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,
- Olympian detachment,
- 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