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Selflessness   /sˈɛlfləsnɪs/   Listen
Selflessness

noun
1.
The quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others.  Synonym: altruism.
2.
Acting with less concern for yourself than for the success of the joint activity.  Synonym: self-sacrifice.





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"Selflessness" Quotes from Famous Books



... significant number will graduate through all the normal seven steps of E science to become ready for the eighth. Some of the E's will master it, but you know how few E's there are. And the E's have enough restraint, wisdom, and selflessness to use this new knowledge for the benefit of man instead of ...
— Eight Keys to Eden • Mark Irvin Clifton
... critics of conduct themselves would not dare, The trivial cocksure belittlers of dangers they have not to share, Claim much—oh so much, from rough manhood,—unflinching cool daring in fray, And selflessness utter, from toilers with little of praise, ...
— Punch, Or the London Charivari, Vol. 102, Feb. 13, 1892 • Various


Words linked to "Selflessness" :   cooperation, egoism, self-sacrifice, denial, unselfishness, self-renunciation, abnegation, self-denial, selfless, self-abnegation


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