Heartless vs Detached - What's the difference?
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Without a heart; specifically, without feeling, emotion, or concern for others; uncaring.
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Of a house: not joined to another house on either side.
Having little or no emotions or interest towards someone else.
Not influenced by anyone else; characterized by an impersonal objectivity; impartial.
(detach)
As adjectives the difference between heartless and detached
is that heartless is without a heart; specifically, without feeling, emotion, or concern for others; uncaring while detached is of a house: not joined to another house on either side.As a verb detached is
past tense of detach.heartless
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Adjective
(en adjective)- His heartless actions and cold manner left her saddened and feeling alone.
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