detachment

Other forms of detachment

plural

detachments·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about detachment

What does detachment mean?

detachment means "avoiding emotional involvement". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in detachment?

detachment has 3 syllables: de-tach-ment. The stress falls on "tach". In IPA it is /dɪˈtætʃmənt/.

What is another word for detachment?

Close synonyms include withdrawal, disengagement, insulation, insularity, insularism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is detachment a common word?

detachment is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with detachment?

1 word rhymes with detachment. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.