disengaging

disengaging (comparative more disengaging, superlative most disengaging)

1. That causes one to lose commitment and interest; alienating.
   • 1911, Mrs. Henry Dudeney, Maid's Money, page 286:

     In a minute or two whe sould bo up to Amy; but already she was rather shrinking from her high purpose, and she hoped that Amy would not be in her most disengaging mood; hoped that she would not, as usual, draw down the shutters of her body over her soul.

   • 2010, Batja Mesquita, ‎Lisa Feldman Barrett, ‎Eliot R. Smith, The Mind in Context, page 183:

     As predicted, overall, across the two weeks, Americans reportedly experienced more disengaging emotions (e.g., pride in self, feelings of self-confidence, anger, and frustration) than engaging emotions (e.g., friendly feelings, respect, shame, and guilt).

   • 2015, Raymond Miller, Democracy in New Zealand:

     Although New Zealnd's small and intimate society might have been expected to insulate it from the most disengaging effects of international trends, this has not been the case; indeed, campaigns are in danger of becoming as cynical, vacuous and remote as they are in much larger democracies.

   • 2022, Michael Armstrong, How to Manage People, page 69:

     Managing a remote workforce is not easy and working from home all or even part o the time (hybrid working) can be either one of the most engaging or one of the most disengaging experiences possible for an employee, depending on how their manager handles it.

2. That causes something to disengage or disconnect.
   • 1892, John Pratt, “477224: Type-Writing Machine”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 1778:

     The combination, with a key-lever provided with a frictionally-pivoted and movable stop, of a check-pin shaft and a disengaging bar or lever for moving said stop to its inoperative position when it has performed its function, substantially as described.

   • 1915, W. P. Beehler, “Some Notes on Boiler Design”, in United States Naval Institute Proceedings , volume 41, page 1260:

     Thus, a Scotch boiler having as a disengaging surface the entire surface of the water in the boiler should have under normal circumstances a low disengaging velocity, and the same should be the case for vertical water-tube boilers.

   • 2024, Lantao Yang, Wennian Yu, Desheng Zou, Liming Wang, Fengshou Gu, David Mba, “Effects of Tooth Directional Modification Error on Internal Excitation and Vibration Characteristics of Gears wieth Early-Stage Crack Fault”, in Andrew D. Ball, ‎Huajiang Ouyang, ‎Jyoti K. Sinha, editor, Proceedings of the UNIfied Conference of DAMAS, IncoME and TEPEN Conferences:

     The results demonstrate that a large TDM error will lead to the disengagement of both sides of the gear teeth, and the larger the TDM error, the more disengaging areas on both sides of the tooth width occur.

disengaging

1. present participle and gerund of disengage