Attachment
noun
A feeling of love or affection.
He has a deep attachment to his family and friends.
Often appears as...
- deep attachment
- emotional attachment
noun
An extra part or extension that is attached to a machine or device to do a specific job.
I lost the vacuum cleaner attachment.
Often appears as...
- vacuum cleaner attachment
- brush attachment
noun
A computer file that is sent along with an email message.
I sent the document as an attachment.
Often appears as...
- email attachment
- send as attachment
noun
The act of adhering or attaching to something.
The attachment of the asset was carried out by the court.
Often appears as...
- court attachment
- asset attachment
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Technical
noun
A feeling of love or affection.
He has a deep attachment to his family and friends.
Often appears as...
- deep attachment
- emotional attachment
noun
An extra part or extension that is attached to a machine or device to do a specific job.
I lost the vacuum cleaner attachment.
Often appears as...
- vacuum cleaner attachment
- brush attachment
noun
A computer file that is sent along with an email message.
I sent the document as an attachment.
Often appears as...
- email attachment
- send as attachment
noun
The act of adhering or attaching to something.
The attachment of the asset was carried out by the court.
Often appears as...
- court attachment
- asset attachment
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Connection
Refers to strong emotions tying one to people or things.
She couldn't leave her hometown due to her attachment to it.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Positive
Can imply dependence or difficulty letting go.
His attachment to his old car made selling it hard.
Pro Tip 3/3Psychological Term
Used in psychology to describe relationships between people.
Attachment theory explains how we connect with others.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Connection
Refers to strong emotions tying one to people or things.
She couldn't leave her hometown due to her attachment to it.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Positive
Can imply dependence or difficulty letting go.
His attachment to his old car made selling it hard.
Pro Tip 3/3Psychological Term
Used in psychology to describe relationships between people.
Attachment theory explains how we connect with others.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Connection
Refers to strong emotions tying one to people or things.
She couldn't leave her hometown due to her attachment to it.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Positive
Can imply dependence or difficulty letting go.
His attachment to his old car made selling it hard.
Pro Tip 3/3Psychological Term
Used in psychology to describe relationships between people.
Attachment theory explains how we connect with others.
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How smart are dolphins?...
and how confident they feel about that knowledge. But some of the most amazing things about dolphins are their senses of empathy, altruism, and attachment. The habit of helping injured individuals extends across the species barrier as evidenced by the many accounts of dolphins carrying humans to the surface to breathe.
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Outlasting the Enemy in...
such excruciating pain in my entire life at times you would you would actually take your hand off the side of mountain in amazement look at your hand make sure your workshop trying to get up another foot because you've got two of your attachment members that are that are injured we were either all going to die
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Why do we love? A...
Buddha proposed that we love because we are trying to satisfy our base desires. Yet, our passionate cravings are defects, and attachments, even romantic love, are a great source of suffering. Luckily, Buddha discovered the eight-fold path, a sort of program for extinguishing the fires of desire
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Why are we so attached...
don't exhibit the endowment effect. That's possibly because they live in an egalitarian society where almost everything is shared. At the other extreme, sometimes our attachment to our things can go too far. Part of the cause of hoarding disorder is an exaggerated sense of responsibility
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Why 30 is not the new 20...
So when we think about child development, we all know that the first five years are a critical period for language and attachment in the brain. It's a time when your ordinary, day-to-day life has an inordinate impact on who you will become.
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Why we love, why we...
on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy. And I think that attachment, the third brain system, evolved to enable you to tolerate this human being at least long enough to raise a child together as a team.
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Top 5 Nail-Biting...
in covering needs you with a special attachment to that elephants I follow on the tracking system you know what they're like and you feel that you feel like an actor with a hand side you know Steven hi there very long life it's like
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The brain in love PIPE...
It's also the brain region that becomes active when you're willing to take enormous risks for huge gains and huge losses. Last but not least, we found activity in a brain region associated with deep attachment to another individual.
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The evolution of the...
was writing technology influences form it does not have the same attachment to meaning as we do so in the future I anticipate that writing will be even easier and even quicker and require even less physical and mental input from us
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Connected, but alone? PIPE...
You end up isolated if you don't cultivate the capacity for solitude, the ability to be separate, to gather yourself. Solitude is where you find yourself so that you can reach out to other people and form real attachments.
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How smart are dolphins?...
and how confident they feel about that knowledge. But some of the most amazing things about dolphins are their senses of empathy, altruism, and attachment. The habit of helping injured individuals extends across the species barrier as evidenced by the many accounts of dolphins carrying humans to the surface to breathe.
Video examples
Outlasting the Enemy in...
such excruciating pain in my entire life at times you would you would actually take your hand off the side of mountain in amazement look at your hand make sure your workshop trying to get up another foot because you've got two of your attachment members that are that are injured we were either all going to die
Video examples
Why do we love? A...
Buddha proposed that we love because we are trying to satisfy our base desires. Yet, our passionate cravings are defects, and attachments, even romantic love, are a great source of suffering. Luckily, Buddha discovered the eight-fold path, a sort of program for extinguishing the fires of desire
Video examples
Why are we so attached...
don't exhibit the endowment effect. That's possibly because they live in an egalitarian society where almost everything is shared. At the other extreme, sometimes our attachment to our things can go too far. Part of the cause of hoarding disorder is an exaggerated sense of responsibility
Video examples
Why 30 is not the new 20...
So when we think about child development, we all know that the first five years are a critical period for language and attachment in the brain. It's a time when your ordinary, day-to-day life has an inordinate impact on who you will become.
Video examples
Why we love, why we...
on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy. And I think that attachment, the third brain system, evolved to enable you to tolerate this human being at least long enough to raise a child together as a team.
Video examples
Top 5 Nail-Biting...
in covering needs you with a special attachment to that elephants I follow on the tracking system you know what they're like and you feel that you feel like an actor with a hand side you know Steven hi there very long life it's like
Video examples
The brain in love PIPE...
It's also the brain region that becomes active when you're willing to take enormous risks for huge gains and huge losses. Last but not least, we found activity in a brain region associated with deep attachment to another individual.
Video examples
The evolution of the...
was writing technology influences form it does not have the same attachment to meaning as we do so in the future I anticipate that writing will be even easier and even quicker and require even less physical and mental input from us
Video examples
Connected, but alone? PIPE...
You end up isolated if you don't cultivate the capacity for solitude, the ability to be separate, to gather yourself. Solitude is where you find yourself so that you can reach out to other people and form real attachments.
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Jens Martin Skibsted
Danish Designer
It is widely accepted and understood that consumer decisions are as much influenced by emotional attachments to a product or service as by factors like price and performance. So why is it that when it comes to most aspects of human transportation, the world still seems to believe people are rational machines?
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Kenny Omega
Canadian Athlete
I try to think of things in levels, pain levels and such, injury levels, like, 'How bad is this injury supposed to be? How much should I be selling?' And I think it also helps with the emotional attachment of fans when you're trying to tell a story as well.
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George Ripley
American Activist
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.
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Kevin Mitnick
American Businessman
Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail.
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Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.
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Laura Moser
American Author
With our growing attachment to the online universe comes a refined ability to keep tabs on several things at once, to watch stories unfold on parallel planes.
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George Monbiot
British Writer
A large body of literature suggests that wellbeing is intimately linked to attachment - not only to other people, but also to the natural world.
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Gary Zukav
American Author
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
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Herbert A. Simon
American Economist
My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.
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Martin Freeman
English Actor
I don't have sentimental attachments to characters at all.
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Jens Martin Skibsted
Danish Designer
It is widely accepted and understood that consumer decisions are as much influenced by emotional attachments to a product or service as by factors like price and performance. So why is it that when it comes to most aspects of human transportation, the world still seems to believe people are rational machines?
Quote examples
Kenny Omega
Canadian Athlete
I try to think of things in levels, pain levels and such, injury levels, like, 'How bad is this injury supposed to be? How much should I be selling?' And I think it also helps with the emotional attachment of fans when you're trying to tell a story as well.
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George Ripley
American Activist
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.
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Kevin Mitnick
American Businessman
Social engineering is using deception, manipulation and influence to convince a human who has access to a computer system to do something, like click on an attachment in an e-mail.
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Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.
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Laura Moser
American Author
With our growing attachment to the online universe comes a refined ability to keep tabs on several things at once, to watch stories unfold on parallel planes.
Quote examples
George Monbiot
British Writer
A large body of literature suggests that wellbeing is intimately linked to attachment - not only to other people, but also to the natural world.
Quote examples
Gary Zukav
American Author
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
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Herbert A. Simon
American Economist
My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.
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Martin Freeman
English Actor
I don't have sentimental attachments to characters at all.
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