feel detached
Frequency: 8.0130.5 per million words
To perceive oneself as being emotionally or physically separate.
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Examples (10)
- He felt curiously detached from what was going on.
- After the traumatic event, she started to feel detached from her own emotions.
- Sometimes in a large crowd, I feel completely detached from everyone.
- As a journalist covering the war, he had to feel detached to do his job effectively.
- I've been feeling rather detached from my work lately, as if I'm just on autopilot.
- It's worrying when you feel detached from the people you love.
- The character in the novel often feels detached from the society around him.
- Do you ever feel so detached that reality itself seems unreal?
- He tried to meditate, but could only feel detached and distracted.
- Following the argument, she felt cold and detached from her partner.