the.com/disconnect
The vacation your brain books without ever leaving your body.
means To be out of touch or disjointed from something — a break in the link between two things that should be communicating.
from Simple carpentry of Latin: 'dis-' (apart, undoing) bolted onto 'connectere' (to bind or tie together, from com- 'together' plus nectere 'to tie, bind'). So the word is literally 'unbinding' — the same root that gives us 'connect,' just thrown in reverse. The noun use (a 'disconnect' as a gap or mismatch, rather than the verb for unplugging a cable) is the newer, more modern twist — business and therapy-speak bending an old verb into a tidy little noun for 'things that don't line up.'
- corporate code word
- means someone forgot to read the email
- etymology
- literally un-tying a knot, dis plus connect
- modern irony
- you announce it by posting about it
- therapy speak
- often means avoidance wearing a wellness costume