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2 definitions found 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 1.6 [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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