Detachment may mean:
- Emotional detachment, in psychology, refers to "inability to connect" or "mental assertiveness"
- Detachment (philosophy), a philosophical state
- Detachment (military), a military term
- Detachment (film), an American film
- Décollement, a geological term for a zone where rock units are detached from each other
- Retinal detachment, a disorder of the retina
- A term used in the United Kingdom for an enclave or exclave
Famous quotes containing the word detach:
“An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.”
—Robert Bresson (b. 1907)
“I am dead against art’s being self-expression. I see an inherent failure in any story which fails to detach itself from the author—detach itself in the sense that a well-blown soap-bubble detaches itself from the bowl of the blower’s pipe and spherically takes off into the air as a new, whole, pure, iridescent world. Whereas the ill-blown bubble, as children know, timidly adheres to the bowl’s lip, then either bursts or sinks flatly back again.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)