From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Detachment \De*tach"ment\, noun [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) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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