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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



... poetry, and talked of heroes, into whose ears she had poured Ruskin and Carlyle from his youth up; who was the friend and comrade of all the country folk, because of a certain irrepressible interest in his kind, a certain selflessness that were his cradle gifts; who shared in his boyish way, her own amused contempt for shams and shows—had she, after all, been training him for a mistake in the ...
— The Mating of Lydia • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... patients and their welfare were the first consideration and nothing else mattered in comparison. The hospital was not "smart" or "up to date," the wards were not even tidy, the staff was inadequate, overworked, and villainously housed, the resources very scanty, but for sheer selflessness and utter devotion to their work the staff of that hospital from top to bottom could not have been surpassed. I never heard a grumble or a complaint all the time I was there either from a doctor, a Sister, or an orderly, and I never saw ...
— Field Hospital and Flying Column - Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia • Violetta Thurstan



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



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