Associations to the word «Detriment»

Wiktionary

DETRIMENT, noun. Harm, hurt, damage.
DETRIMENT, noun. (UK) (obsolete) A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.

Dictionary definition

DETRIMENT, noun. A damage or loss.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King