Synonyms for self-sacrifice
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Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Self-denial — the giving up of one's own benefit for the good of others
2. Selflessness
Definitions
- n. 1
The giving up of one's own benefit for the good of others.
Caring for a loved one with a chronic illness inevitably involves self-sacrifice.
- n. 2
The act of making the ultimate sacrifice of giving up one's life for a cause.
His brave self-sacrifice won him a posthumous medal, but I think he'd have preferred to receive it in person.
Related words
- Word family
- self-sacrificing
Forms
- Plural
- self-sacrifices → self-denials, self-abnegations, selflessnesses, devotions…
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Self-sacrifice is the strongest and completest term of all, and contemplates the gift of self as actually made. We speak of the self-sacrifice of Christ, where any other of the above terms would be feeble or inappropriate.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- devotion The senator avowed his devotion to his constituents.
- selflessness Selflessness is the best thing you can do for yourself.
By length
- 8 letters
- devotion3, altruism4
- 12 letters
- selflessness3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (devotion3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- auto-sacrifice