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Detrimental 

Detrimental is an adjective that means harmful or tending to cause harm. It can also be used to mean prejudicial, disadvantageous or counterproductive.
Most people realise that smoking is detrimental to your health.
Detrimental by AKACroatalin August 1, 2015

friends with detriments 

The opposite of friends with benefits. A close friend who relies on you emotionally but there is no physical intimacy Involved. See also: HMNR.
I've known Leila for three years. She calls me up to talk whenever she has a fight with one of the losers she happens to be seeing. I like her a lot but we are totally just friends with detriments.

detriment 

A result of harm or damage. A negative effect.
He was elected to the detriment of every burrough in New York.. She thought that her brains were a detriment to her appeal.
detriment by byline November 13, 2013

law of detachment

In mathematical logic, the Law of Detachment says that if the following two statements are true:

(1) If p, then q.

(2) p
Then we can derive a third true statement:

(3) q.
Damn dude! I'm doing lesson 2.3 on the law of detachment in my geometry book!
law of detachment by greendevil32 September 8, 2016

Emotional Detachment 

The inability to feel or recognise any basic human emotions as anyone would.
After suffering that much trauma I was diagnosed as having emotional detachment.

Retinal Detachment 

A sight threatening eye problem effecting one out of every 10,000 people. This serious condition can be treated with surgery or by leaving your basement and getting off of Tumblr.
My retinal detachment doesnt keep me from finding all the creppyiest memes and hotdog leg pics.
Retinal Detachment by D2theMO January 7, 2014