(1) It's a slowly-growing sense of dissatisfaction, disinterest, disconnectedness.

(2) This abuse, with its attendant hardening and disconnectedness, must certainly be a powerful contributing factor to substance abuse and to other pathologies as well.

(3) In the eyes of experts, this 23)disconnectedness says, "I'm more important than you."

(4) But it's also the case that there's value to alone time — to disconnectedness.

(5) Observed behavior, even that which is ordinarily considered 'rational, ' possesses many elements of disconnectedness not present in this idealized picture.