unselfishness

1. 1.

   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”

   Antonymsselfishness

   Broadergenerosity

   Narroweraltruism
2. 2.

   acting generously

   Synonymsgenerosity

   Broadersharing

Other forms of unselfishness

plural

unselfishnesses·

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 unselfishness

What does unselfishness mean?

unselfishness means "the quality of not putting yourself first but being willing to give your time or money or effort etc. for others". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unselfishness?

unselfishness has 4 syllables: un-sel-fish-ness. The stress falls on "sel".

What is another word for unselfishness?

Close synonyms include generosity. 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.

What is the opposite of unselfishness?

The recorded antonyms are selfishness.

Is unselfishness a common word?

unselfishness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.