Selflessness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Selflessness \Self"less*ness\, n.
     Quality or state of being selfless.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  selflessness
       n 1: the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others
            [syn: {altruism}] [ant: {egoism}]
       2: acting with less concern for yourself than for the success
          of the joint activity [syn: {self-sacrifice}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  34 Moby Thesaurus words for "selflessness":
     Olympian detachment, altruism, commitment, consecration,
     dedication, detachment, devotion, disinterest, disinterestedness,
     dispassion, dispassionateness, humility, impartiality, loftiness,
     modesty, neutrality, sacrifice, self-abasement, self-abnegation,
     self-denial, self-devotion, self-effacement, self-forgetfulness,
     self-immolation, self-neglect, self-neglectfulness,
     self-renouncement, self-sacrifice, self-subjection,
     unacquisitiveness, unbias, unbiasedness, unpossessiveness,
     unselfishness