selflessness

English

Etymology

From selfless +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

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Noun

selflessness (usually uncountable, plural selflessnesses)

1. The quality or state of being selfless.

   Antonym: selfishness

   • 2011 March 19, Nicholas Kristof, “The Japanese Could Teach Us a Thing or Two”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     But the truth is that I came to cherish Japan’s civility and selflessness.

Translations

quality or state of being selfless

• Arabic: إِيثَار m (ʔīṯār), غَيْرِيَّة f (ḡayriyya)
• Belarusian: самаадда́насць f (samaaddánascʹ)
• Bulgarian: самоотверже́ност (bg) f (samootveržénost), безкори́стност f (bezkorístnost)
• French: altruisme (fr) m
• German: Selbstlosigkeit (de) f
• Hungarian: önzetlenség (hu)
• Persian: ایثار (fa) (isâr), نوع‌دوستی (fa) (now'-dusti)
• Polish: bezinteresowność (pl) f
• Russian: самоотве́рженность (ru) f (samootvéržennostʹ), бескоры́стность (ru) f (beskorýstnostʹ)
• Ukrainian: самові́дданість f (samovíddanistʹ)