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selflessness

selflessness noun: the quality or state of being selfless.

Noun

selflessness (usually uncountable, plural selflessnesses)

  1. (usually) The quality or state of being selfless.
    • But the truth is that I came to cherish Japan’s civility and selflessness.2011 March 19, Nicholas Kristof, “The Japanese Could Teach Us a Thing or Two”, in The New York Times
    Antonyms:
    selfishness

selflessness meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

selflessness in Hindi

selflessness
निरभिमान nirabhimān

selflessness in Tamil

தன்னலமின்மை

selflessness in Urdu

selflessness
بیخودی bexudi

selflessness in Bengali

selflessness
বেখুদি bekhudi
More languagesFewer languages
selflessness in Arabic
إِيثَار ʔīṯār, غَيْرِيَّة ḡayriyya
selflessness in Persian
ایثار isâr, نوعدوستی now'-dusti

Synonyms of selflessness

Antonyms

Forms of selflessness

pluralselflessnesses

Origin of selflessness

From selfless + -ness.

Questions about selflessness

What does selflessness mean?
Selflessness means the quality or state of being selfless.
What is selflessness in Hindi?
Selflessness in Hindi is निरभिमान (nirabhimān). See Selflessness meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is selflessness?
Selflessness is a noun.
What is the plural of selflessness?
The plural of selflessness is selflessnesses.

Words near selflessness in the dictionary

  1. selfists
  2. selfitis
  3. selfless
  4. selfless dependent
  5. selflessly
  6. selflessness
  7. selflessnesses
  8. selflike
  9. selfline
  10. selflines
  11. selflove

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Adapted from Wiktionary: selflessness (page history and authors); निरभिमान (Hindi) (page history and authors); selflessness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); بیخودی (Urdu) (page history and authors); বেখুদি (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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