Hypertext Webster Gateway: "detachment"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Detachment \De*tach"ment\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]tachement.]
1. The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being
detached.
2. That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or
part of a fleet sent from the main body on special
service.
Troops . . . widely scattered in little detachments.
--Bancroft.
3. Abstraction from worldly objects; renunciation.
A trial which would have demanded of him a most
heroic faith and the detachment of a saint. --J. H.
Newman.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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 insulated [syn: {insulation}, {insularity},
{insularism}]
4: a small unit of troops of special composition
5: coming apart [syn: {separation}, {breakup}]
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