selflessness
/ˈsɛlfləsnəs
/noun [mass noun]
Concern more with the needs and wishes of others than with one’s own: a noble act of selflessness the selflessness and courage of officers killed in the line of duty...
- He turns virtues on their head—neither honesty nor selflessness is to be sought.
- Once he realizes the joy of selflessness, he will achieve greatness.
- She reaches a humane sense of selflessness by taking care of his mother.
- notornis
- not (or not so) bad
- notothere
- no-touch
- notoungulate
- notour
- not out
- not pay someone any mind
- not playing with a full deck
- not proven
- not put it past someone
- not quite
- not quite the thing
- Notre Dame
- not right in the head
- no-trumper
- no trumps
- not see further than one's (or the end of one's) nose
- not-seeing
- not see someone for dust
- not-self
- not sleep (or get) a wink (or not get a wink of sleep)
- not so dusty
- not someone's day
- not someone's idea of