self-forgetfulness

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Noun
  • Appreciate Wilson’s technical brilliance but also the emotional generosity of his choral arrangements in which falsetto yearning is granted bass underpinning.
    Armond White, National Review, 18 June 2025
  • That is, generosity declined as social distance increased.
    Tobias Kalenscher, Scientific American, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • There are some people who will criticize your generation’s altruism as childlike fantasy.
    Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 14 June 2025
  • And in humans the structure has been linked to traits such as trust, empathy, moral decision-making and extraordinary altruism.
    Tobias Kalenscher, Scientific American, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • Advertisement What Fellowes can’t countenance are privileged people who lack the magnanimity befitting their rank and, most of all, servants who are insufficiently grateful to their benevolent employers.
    Judy Berman, Time, 20 June 2025
  • Courage is the habit of moving forward despite fear, and its associated virtues include perseverance, resilience, and magnanimity.
    Andrew Abela, Forbes.com, 3 May 2025
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“Self-forgetfulness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/self-forgetfulness. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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