Definition of Self-forgetful

1. Adjective. Showing lack of self-interest.

Similar to: Unselfish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-forgetful

self-examining
self-excitation
self-existence
self-existent
self-explanatory
self-expression
self-feeder
self-feeling
self-fertile
self-fertilisation
self-fertilised
self-fertilization
self-fertilized
self-flagellation
self-flattery
self-forgetful (current term)
self-fulfilling
self-fulfilling prophecies
self-fulfilling prophecy
self-fulfillment
self-generated
self-giving
self-governing
self-government
self-gratification
self-harm
self-harmer
self-hating
self-hatred

Literary usage of Self-forgetful

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Trend of the Races by George Edmund Haynes (1922)
"self-forgetful loyalty of the Negro. The self-forgetful loyalty to the interests and cause of others even where it conflicts with self-interest has been ..."

2. Music (1897)
"THE self-forgetful RICHARD WAGNER. Emile Ollivier, the French statesman and Academician, who married one of Liszt's daughters, pictures Wagner as follows in ..."

3. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, Sir W Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1895)
"... in its loftiest ambition as well as its minutest calculation, identical with the unsparing and self-forgetful service of man. JOHN WATSON. ..."

4. The Philosophy of School Management by Arnold Tompkins (1895)
"become so through intense sympathy with the unfolding life of others, —a sympathy which gives no peace except in the self-forgetful labor of nurturing the ..."

5. Mutterings and Musings of an Invalid by Frederic Townsend (1851)
"... and submissive, and forgiving, and self- forgetful and mindful of others—imitate this heavenly bounty—spare not of thy counsel to the ignorant, ..."

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