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Definition of detriment : 1. A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.
2. That which injures or causes damage; mischief; harm; diminution; loss; damage; - used very generically; as, detriments to property, religion, morals, etc.
3. To do injury to; to hurt.

Synonyms:

injustice, impairment, hurt, trauma, suffering, damage, outrage, blemish, injury, loss, handicap, scathe, prejudice, distress, minus, wrong, help, harm

disadvantage, turpitude, baseness, wrongness, malfeasance, depravity, blackness, vice, inadvisability, unpleasantness

drawback, impediment

evil, abomination, heinousness, reprehensibleness, repellency, offensiveness, bane, nefariousness, repulsiveness, badness, atrocity, foulness, sinisterness, disgrace, terribleness, mischief, sinfulness, wickedness, calamitousness, damnation, hideousness, monstrosity

Usage examples:

• The pain he thus occasioned enabled him to extricate himself from his formidable foe, not, however, without detriment to himself. - "The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852", Ben Casseday.
• " But for that hardness of expression she might be a tearing beauty," was the comment of more than one woman who knew and envied her; but that expression certainly existed and to her constant detriment. - "'Laramie;' or, The Queen of Bedlam.", Charles King.
• In the larger ones the universal quality is felt, but to the detriment of the intimate, Polish characteristics. - "Chopin: The Man and His Music", James Huneker.