[
US
/ˈsɛɫfɫəs/
]
[ UK /sˈɛlfləs/ ]
[ UK /sˈɛlfləs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others
How To Use selfless In A Sentence
- Their history is replete with heroic deeds of selfless devotion and supreme sacrifice over the years.
- You cannot suddenly engender selfless commitment when you go on operations. Times, Sunday Times
- His season on the pitch has not been too eye-catching but his selfless act in donating the receipts of his testimonial game to children's charities is one of the greatest things a Premiership footballer had done this season.
- Perhaps the only all-enduring and selfless love was that of a mother for her child.
- One of the most brave and unique documentary projects, it leaves you in awe of its selfless creator and his generous family.
- The other meaning of self occurs in the term selflessness, where it refers to a falsely imagined, overconcretized status of existence called “inherent existence.” How to See Yourself As You Really Are
- You've only to look at the selfless behaviour of those assembled in the political arena just along the road to see that New Zealanders have a highly overdeveloped sense of fair play.
- But the point of ego dissolution required to exist in a state of selfless divine love is also one of death and rebirth.
- The word selfless is an adjective that defines a person who is completely devoted to others welfare or interest and not ones own. Carla Alpert And Diane Prefontaine: Words to Live By: Kindness is Contagious (VIDEO)
- he acted selflessly when he helped the old lady in distress