"selflessness" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: selflessnesses [plural]
Etymology: From selfless + -ness. Etymology templates: {{af|en|selfless|-ness}} selfless + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} selflessness (usually uncountable, plural selflessnesses)
  1. The quality or state of being selfless. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (quality or state of being selfless): إِيثَار (ʔīṯār) [masculine] (Arabic), غَيْرِيَّة (ḡayriyya) [feminine] (Arabic), самаадда́насць (samaaddánascʹ) [feminine] (Belarusian), самоотверже́ност (samootveržénost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), безкори́стност (bezkorístnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), altruisme [masculine] (French), Selbstlosigkeit [feminine] (German), önzetlenség (Hungarian), ایثار (isâr) (Persian), نوعدوستی (now'-dusti) (Persian), bezinteresowność [feminine] (Polish), самоотве́рженность (samootvéržennostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), бескоры́стность (beskorýstnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), самові́дданість (samovíddanistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "quality or state of being selfless",
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          "sense": "quality or state of being selfless",
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          "sense": "quality or state of being selfless",
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          "sense": "quality or state of being selfless",
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      "sense": "quality or state of being selfless",
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      "sense": "quality or state of being selfless",
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      "sense": "quality or state of being selfless",
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      "word": "самаадда́насць"
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      "roman": "samootveržénost",
      "sense": "quality or state of being selfless",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "самоотверже́ност"
    },
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      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bezkorístnost",
      "sense": "quality or state of being selfless",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "безкори́стност"
    },
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "quality or state of being selfless",
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        "masculine"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "quality or state of being selfless",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Selbstlosigkeit"
    },
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "quality or state of being selfless",
      "word": "önzetlenség"
    },
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      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "isâr",
      "sense": "quality or state of being selfless",
      "word": "ایثار"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "now'-dusti",
      "sense": "quality or state of being selfless",
      "word": "نوعدوستی"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "quality or state of being selfless",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bezinteresowność"
    },
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "samootvéržennostʹ",
      "sense": "quality or state of being selfless",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "самоотве́рженность"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "beskorýstnostʹ",
      "sense": "quality or state of being selfless",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "бескоры́стность"
    },
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "samovíddanistʹ",
      "sense": "quality or state of being selfless",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "самові́дданість"
    }
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}

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