detached vs proximate

detached

adj
  • Having or showing no bias or emotional involvement; disinterested. 

  • Not physically attached; separated from something it could connect to. 

  • Not influenced by anyone else; characterized by an impersonal objectivity; impartial. 

  • Of a house: not joined to another house on either side. 

proximate

adj
  • Close or closest; adjacent. 

  • Immediately preceding or following in a chain of causation. 

  • About to take place; impending. 

noun
  • A grammatical marker that distinguishes a relatively salient referent in a given context from a relatively non-salient (obviative) one. 

How often have the words detached and proximate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )