selflessness

Other forms of selflessness

plural

selflessnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about selflessness

What does selflessness mean?

selflessness means "the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in selflessness?

selflessness has 3 syllables: sel-fles-sness. The stress falls on "sel". In IPA it is /ˈsɛlfləsnɪs/.

What is another word for selflessness?

Close synonyms include altruism, self-sacrifice. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is selflessness a common word?

selflessness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.