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selflessness
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selflessness
n.
unselfishness, quality of putting other people's needs before one's own
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Selflessness
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selflessness
Noun
1. the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others
(synonym) altruism
(hypernym) unselfishness
2. acting with less concern for yourself than for the success of the joint activity
(synonym) self-sacrifice
(hypernym) cooperation
(hyponym) abnegation, self-abnegation, denial, self-denial, self-renunciation
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Selflessness
(n.)
Quality or state of being selfless.
Quality or state of being selfless.
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Selflessness
Selflessness The attribute of the atman, the essential self or selfhood; on the upward arc of evolution we strive to wean our lower or personal self from attachments to objects of personal desire and to achieve the universality of feeling which pertains to this divine essence (atman). Without the altruistic intuition, no society, whether of animals or humans, could hold together. Instead of regarding selflessness as a lofty and difficult goal to be attained by climbing, we can regard it as an original "home" from which we have wandered.
