disengagednessn.
The quality of being disengaged; freedom from ties, engagement, obligation, or prepossession.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > [noun] > freedom from obligation
disobligation1620
disobligement1649
unbeholdenness1674
disengagedness1685
disengagement1702
1685 tr. B. Gracián y Morales Courtiers Oracle 195 To speak clearly..shews not onely a disengagedness, but also a vivacity of wit.
1754 J. Edwards Careful Enq. Freedom of Will ii. xiii. 133 The more the Soul has of this Disengagedness, in it's acting, the more Liberty.
1849 J. Hamilton Let. in Life (1870) viii. 353 I have a singular sensation of disengagedness.
1887 E. Gurney Tertium Quid I. 250 The application of it requires disengagedness and common-sense.
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