detachment.

1. Distance from immediate feeling or personal involvement when responding or judging.

2. Separation from something to which a part was attached.

3. A group assigned away from the main military body.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• emotional detachment
• critical detachment

On the page

She examined the testimony with critical detachment.

Usage notes

Primary category: psychology / human behavior. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: character, interpretation. Commonness: moderately common.