unselfishness
- n the quality of not putting yourself first but being willing to give your time or money or effort etc. for others
rural people show more devotion and unselfishness than do their urban cousins - n acting generously
- The four tenets of Frank Buchman's version of Oxford Group Christianity were "absolute honesty, absolute purity, absolute unselfishness and absolute love," and so much absolutism .
- An ex--New York Knick, he coached teams including the Detroit Pistons, the Phoenix Suns and Bill Bradley's Princeton squad--and treasured teamwork and unselfishness above all.
- Houck was immediately drawn to the group's teachings, which were based on four principles: honesty, purity, unselfishness and love.