detachment vs detail

detachment

noun
  • A permanent unit organized for special duties. 

  • Indifference to the concerns of others; disregard; nonchalance; aloofness. 

  • The state of being detached or disconnected; insulation. 

  • The separation of a military unit from the main body for a particular purpose or special mission. 

  • The unit so dispatched. 

  • The action of detaching; separation. 

  • Absence of bias; impartiality; objectivity. 

  • Any smaller portion of a main body separately employed. 

detail

noun
  • A temporary unit or assignment. 

  • An individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part. 

  • A part considered trivial enough to ignore. 

  • A person's name, address and other personal information. 

  • A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars. 

  • A selected portion of a painting. 

  • A part small enough to escape casual notice. 

  • The small parts that can escape casual notice. 

  • A profusion of details. 

verb
  • To clean carefully (particularly of road vehicles) (always pronounced. /ˈdiːteɪl/) 

  • To explain in detail. 

  • To assign to a particular task. 

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