selflessness - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
selflessness (usually uncountable, plural selflessnesses)
- 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.
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)