attachment
noun
nonattachment
-
a word derived from
attachment.
Example Sentences
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In my favor: though not a Buddhist, I am intellectually, if not spiritually, drawn to Buddhism’s doctrines of suffering, impermanence and nonattachment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
In Zen Buddhism, there is a concept called nonattachment.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 19, 2022
Aldous Huxley’s 1931 novel of a future marked by genetic engineering, drugs and nonattachment gets a series.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2020
But he remains unhappy in every condition, until he finds that the only true wisdom is nonattachment, a resigned acceptance of everything that happens.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 12, 2018
So bit by bit, while scrubbing and Windexing and buffing, I cobble together a philosophy of glorious nonattachment.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
