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selflessness

[ self-lis-nis ]

noun

  1. lack of preoccupation with one’s own interests, advancement, desires, etc., and attentiveness to those of others; unselfishness:

    Playing volleyball taught me the value of teamwork, discipline, and selflessness, which can all be applied in the classroom in helping others.



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Knausgaard has somehow pushed narcissism to such an extreme point that it takes on the appearance of total selflessness.

They taught me selflessness, boldness, and investing in future leaders.

And he lauded Giffords for teaching Americans “the true meaning of hope in the face of despair,” and selflessness.

His final act of selflessness was to dive on top of his wife, sacrificing his life for hers.

Their actions, their selflessness poses a challenge to each of us.

My life work will be to drag him down from his pinnacle of selflessness!

How can a cautious, cunning, time-serving man of the world understand the selflessness of the Son of God?

In this man there was neither the enthusiastic patriotism of a Chauvelin, nor the ardent selflessness of a Danton.

Woman, by way of Motherhood, has endowed man with an ever fuller heritage of her attributes of selflessness and intuition.

Perhaps he was simply gaining time to suppress the emotions which the selflessness of the other had inspired.

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