detachment
Example Sentences
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He preserves an ironic detachment, refusing to take sides between the colonial French forces and the Communists fighting to take control of the country.
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.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
