detachment
Example Sentences
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Reading the astonishingly vicious responses directed at me, I felt something like detachment.
From Salon
“It’s a buffer against the loneliness and detachment so many kids feel today.”
Instrument Serif’s designers have watched its spread with detachment.
Romania, the lawmakers noted, is a reliable ally that has hosted a U.S. missile defense detachment since 2016.
This change in mind-set fits within a broader cultural arc that includes the “Buddha-like” attitude and the “lying flat” movement—rejections of relentless competition in favor of detachment.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
