Meanings
nounoverdetachment (uncountable)
- uncountableexcessive emotional detachment
Overdetachment is a serious character flaw that cripples any possibility for intimacy.
2002, Paul J. Wadell, Becoming Friends, page 501 more example
The process of overdetachment may not stop at the failure to see the patient as a person but may go on to the unconscious fantasy that the best patient is one who is completely passive and submissive […]
2004, Janis McLarren Caldwell, Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain, page 153
Origin
Cite this entry
APA
overdetachment. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overdetachment
MLA
“overdetachment.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overdetachment. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overdetachment,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overdetachment.
Source: overdetachment on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.