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detached

Speech parts

1. detached - Adjective

2. detached - Verb

4. detached - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Detach

Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. Simone Weil

True realism, materialist realism lies in the search for the expression of forms faithful to their content. But there is no content detached from human interest. Asger Jorn

A word must become a friend or you will not understand it. Perhaps you do well to be cool and detached when you are seeking information, but I remind you of the wife who complained, 'When I ask John if he loves me, he thinks I am asking for information'. Edward Coke

Like most artists and musicians, I considered myself detached from the political life. But I had an insight that maybe we would have a political contribution to make in the future. Gilberto Gil

Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way to private writing. Records and messages displaced the collective memory. Poetry was written and detached from the collective festival. Harold Innis

The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God. Thomas Aquinas

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