Disengaged vs Disconnected - What's the difference?
disengaged | disconnected |
(disengage)
Unconnected; detached.
(dated) Not (socially) engaged; available, free.
*1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , Vintage 2007, p. 40:
*:‘You must come and dine with us some night. Tuesday? Are you disengaged Tuesday?’
(disconnect)
That is no longer connected.
Feeling a lack of empathy or association with something.
(mathematics, of a topological space) That can be partitioned into two nonempty subsets which are both open and closed.
As verbs the difference between disengaged and disconnected
is that disengaged is (disengage) while disconnected is (disconnect).As adjectives the difference between disengaged and disconnected
is that disengaged is unconnected; detached while disconnected is that is no longer connected.disengaged
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)disconnected
English
Verb
(head)- The phone company disconnected my DSL.
Adjective
(en adjective)- There's no use trying to make a call on the disconnected phone.
- I just feel so disconnected from people living on the other side of the world.