detached (redirected from detachedness)

de·tached  (d-tcht)

adj.

1. Separated; disconnected: a detached part; a detached plug.

2. Standing apart from others; separate: a house with a detached garage.

3. Marked by an absence of emotional involvement and an aloof, impersonal objectivity. See Synonyms at cool.

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de·tached·ly (-tchd-l, -tchtl) adv.

de·tached·ness n.

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detached

Adjective

1. Brit, Austral & S African separate or standing apart: a detached farmhouse

2. showing no emotional involvement: she continued to watch him in her grave and detached manner

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	detached - showing lack of emotional involvement; "adopted a degage pose on the arm of the easy chair"- J.S.Perelman; "she may be detached or even unfeeling but at least she's not hypocritically effusive"; "an uninvolved bystander" degage, uninvolved unconcerned - lacking in interest or care or feeling; "the average American...is unconcerned that his or her plight is the result of a complex of personal and economic and governmental actions...beyond the normal citizen's comprehension and control"; "blithely unconcerned about his friend's plight"
	2.	detached - being or feeling set or kept apart from others; "she felt detached from the group"; "could not remain the isolated figure he had been"- Sherwood Anderson; "thought of herself as alone and separated from the others"; "had a set-apart feeling" separated, set-apart, isolated separate - independent; not united or joint; "a problem consisting of two separate issues"; "they went their separate ways"; "formed a separate church"
	3.	detached - no longer connected or joined; "a detached part"; "on one side of the island was a hugh rock, almost detached"; "the separated spacecraft will return to their home bases" separated unconnected - not joined or linked together
	4.	detached - used of buildings; standing apart from others; "detached houses"; "a detached garage" architecture - the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use" attached - used of buildings joined by common sidewalls; "a block of attached houses"
	5.	detached - lacking affection or warm feeling; "an uncaring person" unaffectionate, uncaring unloving - not giving or reciprocating affection
	6.	detached - not fixed in position; "the detached shutter fell on him"; "he pulled his arm free and ran" free unfixed - not firmly placed or set or fastened

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detached

adjective 1. objective, neutral, impartial, reserved, aloof, impersonal, disinterested, unbiased, dispassionate, uncommitted, uninvolved, unprejudiced << OPPOSITE subjective

adjective 2. separate, free, severed, disconnected, loosened, discrete, unconnected, undivided, disjoined

Translations

detached [dɪˈtætʃt] adj [attitude] → objetivo, imparcial

detached [dɪˈtætʃt] detach adj [attitude] → détaché(e)

detached [dɪˈtætʃt] detach adj → distanziert;

(house) → frei stehend, Einzel-

detached [dɪˈtætʃt] adj [attitude] → distante