disengagedness

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noun

The state or quality of being disengaged.

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Meanings

noundisengagedness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe state or quality of being disengaged.
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    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.

    1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter III, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 27

Origin

From disengaged + -ness.

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