selflessness
Concern for others
Selflessness is the quality of caring more about others' needs than your own—acting without regard for personal benefit.
The word describes a disposition toward sacrifice and generosity: Her selflessness during the crisis inspired everyone.
Selfless acts range from small kindnesses to giving one's life for another.
Sharing another's emotions
- compassionConcern for others' distress
- benevolenceDisposition toward doing good
- kindnessConsiderate, caring disposition
- prosocialBenefiting society or others
altruistic · magnanimity · goodwill · consideration · thoughtfulness · caring · concern · warmth
Transferring to another
- donationVoluntary charitable gift
- giftItem given freely
- philanthropyGenerous giving for others
- charityVoluntary aid for others
benefactor · patron · liberality · munificence · largesse · bountiful · open-handed · sharing
Suffering for conviction
- renunciationFormal surrender of claim
- abnegationRejection of oneself
- forgoingVoluntarily doing without
- surrenderCease resistance, yield
relinquishment · heroism · courage · valor · offering · immolation · privation · asceticism
Unpaid community assistance
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
- givingTransferring to another
- assistanceSupport or aid given
aid · helping · contribution · civic-mindedness · public-spirited · volunteering · outreach · mentoring
Titled ruling class
- honorHigh regard, moral dignity
- integrityMoral soundness and consistency
- dignityInnate personal worth
- rectitudeMoral straightness
uprightness · high-mindedness · decency · graciousness · chivalry · gallantry · probity · virtue
empathy
Sharing another's emotions
- compassionConcern for others' distress
- benevolenceDisposition toward doing good
- kindnessConsiderate, caring disposition
prosocial · altruistic · magnanimity · goodwill · consideration · thoughtfulness · caring · concern · warmth · tender-heartedness
giving
Transferring to another
- donationVoluntary charitable gift
- giftItem given freely
- philanthropyGenerous giving for others
charity · benefactor · patron · liberality · munificence · largesse · bountiful · open-handed · sharing · tithing
martyrdom
Suffering for conviction
- renunciationFormal surrender of claim
- abnegationRejection of oneself
- forgoingVoluntarily doing without
surrender · relinquishment · heroism · courage · valor · offering · immolation · privation · asceticism
volunteerism
Unpaid community assistance
- dedicationWholehearted loyalty to purpose
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
- givingTransferring to another
assistance · aid · helping · contribution · civic-mindedness · public-spirited · volunteering · outreach · mentoring · caregiving
nobility
Titled ruling class
rectitude · uprightness · high-mindedness · decency · graciousness · chivalry · gallantry · probity · virtue · character
- Buddhist virtuesdana, generosity, morality, patience, perseverance
- Islamic ethicsihsan, moral virtues, ethical conduct, birr, divine law
- benevolencealtruism, benevolence, charity work, generosity, giving
- charitycharity, charities, donations, donation, donating
- generositygiving, benevolence, donations, magnanimity, gifts
- Goodnesskindness, charity, compassion, generosity, goodwill
selflessnessselfishness
Excessive concern for oneself
egoism · self-centeredness · egotism · self-interest · self-absorption
selflessnessgreed
Excessive desire for wealth
avarice · acquisitiveness · covetousness · rapacity · cupidity
selflessnessegotism
Inflated sense of self-importance
narcissism · egomania · self-importance · self-aggrandizement · vanity
self, selfish, myself, himself, yourself, oneself, herself, selfless, unselfish