disengagedness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

disengaged +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

disengagedness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being disengaged.
    • 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter III, in Duty and Inclination: [], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, [], →OCLC, page 27:
      Though it was the aim of Sir Howard ever to appear the polished gentleman, yet he was often betrayed into a littleness of thought, an illiberality, the offspring of narrow prejudice; whilst the other, in his apparent humility and disengagedness from the affairs of life, manifested at times an enlargement and comprehension of intellect unbounded.