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What is the noun for detachability?

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detachment
  1. (uncountable) The action of detaching; separation.
  2. (uncountable) The state of being detached or disconnected; insulation.
  3. (uncountable) Indifference to the concerns of others; disregard; nonchalance; aloofness.
  4. (uncountable) Absence of bias; impartiality; objectivity.
  5. (uncountable, military) The separation of a military unit from the main body for particular purpose or a special mission.
  6. (countable, military) The unit so dispatched.
  7. (countable, military) A permanent unit organized for special duties.
  8. (countable) Any smaller portion of a main body separately employed.
  9. Synonyms:
  10. Examples:
    1. “Strong gusts of wind can cause detachment of tree branches and roofing.”
      “The tool is primarily used for distributing the pressure or load so the loosening and detachment of joints can be avoided.”
      “But attitudes of detachment and objectivity are as necessary to the work of the pathology laboratory as sympathy and compassion are to the conduct of a funeral service.”
detachable
  1. Any device that is designed so that it can be detached from something else.
detachability
  1. The quality or degree of being detachable.
  2. Examples:
    1. “We researched patents with useful mechanisms that enable quick detachability and angular positioning of sensors on a vehicle roof rack.”
      “The problem with the LP is faulty wiring caused by the detachability of the guitar's neck.”
      “The founding discovery of modernism has often been defined as the detachability of art from representation, from mimesis in the Aristotelian sense of unproblematic imitation.”
detachableness
  1. The state or quality of being detachable.
detachedness
  1. The state or quality of being detached.
  2. Examples:
    1. “I remember his soulless eyes boring into mine in resentment, the detachedness of his touch, his monotonous voice.”
      “There has always been a detachedness to Lykke Li, in pictures, in performance and in song.”
      “Payne's sultry detachedness is actually most in keeping with Nancy Sinatra during her Lee Hazlewood period.”
detacher
  1. One who or that which detaches.
detachabilities
  1. plural of detachability
detachables
  1. plural of detachable
detachments
  1. plural of detachment
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “All three armed services sent detachments, bands and chiefs of staff, who were accompanied by police and relatives.”
      “Being a Mountie is pretty close to being a member of the armed forces, with detachments sprinkled all over this wide country.”
      “This is reinforced by sequences showing lynch mobs and SS detachments randomly killing anyone they believe insufficiently patriotic.”
detachers
  1. plural of detacher
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