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unselfishness

quality of such an action that does not bring benefit to the doer but to someone else
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unselfishness

Summary

unselfishness is a virtue[1].

Key Facts

  • unselfishness's instance of is recorded as virtue[2].
  • unselfishness is the opposite of selfishness[3].
  • unselfishness's partially coincident with is recorded as altruism[4].

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Definition and Type

unselfishness's instance of is recorded as virtue[2]. unselfishness is the opposite of selfishness[3].

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  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i41096
    Partially coincident with → altruism
    Museum-digital tag id → 68385
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 01087861-n
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P8814]]: 01087861-n"
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