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noun

Disengagement n.

The act of disengaging or setting free, or the state of being disengaged. "It is easy to render this disengagement of caloric and light evident to the senses." "A disengagement from earthly trammels."

Freedom from engrossing occupation; leisure. "Disengagement is absolutely necessary to enjoyment."

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Etymology of 'Disengagement'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Disengagement" Quotes from Famous Books

... fervent vision I should wait, before moving brush: This, so intimate, inner vision of reality, indeed, seems in duller moments well-nigh grotesque; and hence that other glib half-truth: "Art is greater than Life itself." Art is, indeed, greater than Life in the sense that the power of Art is the disengagement from Life of its real spirit and significance. But in any other sense, to say that Art is greater than Life from which it emerges, and into which it must remerge, can but suspend the artist over Life, with his feet in the air and his head in ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... tree is not disengaged from its perception. But unless he believes in the existence of the tree disengaged from its perception, he does not believe in the independent existence of the tree,—in the existence of the tree per se. Now, can the mind by any effort effect this disengagement? The thing is an absolute impossibility. The condition on which the belief hinges cannot be purified, and consequently the belief itself cannot ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 • Various

Words linked to "Disengagement" : detachment, fallback, separation, military, war machine, disengage, pullout, armed forces, armed services, military machine