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1. Avoiding emotional involvement
   - withdrawal
    
2. The act of releasing from an attachment or connection
   - disengagement
    
3. The state of being isolated or detached
   "the detachment of England was preserved by the English Channel";
   - insulation, insularity, insularism
    
4. A small unit of troops of special composition
    
5. Coming apart
   - separation, breakup

Derived forms: detachments

Type of: alteration, army unit, change, indifference, isolation, modification, separation

Encyclopedia: Detachment