In a research book I read this quote by a renowned researcher of grounded theory, Barney Glaser: "It's hard enough to generate one's own ideas without the 'rich' detailment provided by the literature in the same field." Of course, by context we know he means "detail." However, I did wonder if "detailment" had a somewhat different meaning, so I looked it up. The word is not in Onelook or the OED. Yet, it does get about 2,000 hits on Google.

Have you seen the word "detailment" used?

Look like a straightforward error to me. A slip of the mind.

Never heard or read it before, but -ment is a fairly productive suffix for deriving nouns from verbs that refer to an action or its result: e.g., abolishment, adjournment, disappointment, management. It seems straightforward. It probably was coined because detailing already has a specialized meaning in US English. And as it does get some ghits, it is being used. Probably some kind of specialist coinment.

[[Edit: got rid of several commata.]

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Coinment can come from the coin mint too.

coin mint

Indeed. Is coincide a hummanym for Gresham's Law? To coin, coinable, coinage, coined, coiner, coining, coins, coinslot.

Seems reasonable to me!

On a more serious note, does the French word for "corner" relate to our word? Same spelling.

I think you must be right, z, though this was published in Glaser's Theoretical Sensitivity (1978, The Sociology Press). It's a renowned book that is still being cited from today. Given that, wouldn't you think they'd have edited a coinage that's not in any dictionary? Having written a number of book chapters and articles, I know how heavy-handed the editors are, and I don't think it has changed that much since 1978.

While you are right that there are some Google hits on the word (2,000), many of them are from English sites in other countries, such as Pakistan.

Is it coincide if you call to have someone whacked?

Now that I see it printed, that's pretty lame.

Is it coincide if you call to have someone whacked?

Only if somebody dropped a dime coincidentally.

I had "dropped a dime" but changed it because, after checking MW, found it meant 'to inform on someone," not kill them.