If something is detached, it stands apart from something else. That goes for people, emotions, retinas, garages, and just about anything else that can be disconnected or uninvolved.
Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected;
Adjective
used of buildings; standing apart from others; "detached houses"; "a detached garage"
Adjective S.
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"
Adjective S.
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"
Adjective S.
not fixed in position; "the detached shutter fell on him"; "he pulled his arm free and ran"
Adjective S.
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"
imp. & p. p.
of Detach
a.
Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as,
detached parcels.
Detached
Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected;
Usage Examples
Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.
It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact with how things are made that are put in their body and put in their mouths and I just find it alarming that no one questions it.
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Other Usage ExamplesI have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
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