unselfishness

unselfish | American Dictionary

unselfish
adjective
us/ʌnˈsel·fɪʃ/
caring about or generous toward others:
He’s an unselfish player who puts team goals first.

Examples of unselfish

unselfish
In the old debate, egoists do indeed argue that what appears to be unselfish behaviour is always and everywhere and underneath selfish behaviour.
Some of these were personal and communal, some selfish, others unselfish.
In biological and social terms it is a noble and unselfish act of individual self-restraint.
In some games, the payoffs may represent a social dilemma only after unselfish motives and values are factored in.
He is credited with kindness of heart and an unselfish disposition, but it is difficult to find more than the courtesy of the coldblooded.
The second player can decide between selfish behavior, keeping $5 and giving $2 to player one, or unselfish behavior, allocating $4 to each.
They include many of the highest, the most refined and the most unselfish elements of our nature.
Moreover, actual deeds of unselfish and cooperative behavior are often reciprocated.
Roughly, someone is unselfish if, to benefit others, they make themselves worse off than they are required to be.
At any moment, each individual could will a moral ideal that was both rational and unselfish.
Players were less likely to trust opponents in games immediately after they had been cheated than in games after the opponent was unselfish.
In this respect, they viewed themselves during marriage as ' unselfish ' and as such held the moral high ground over men.
Within the sets of games played after either a selfish or unselfish response, players were still more likely to trust faces morphed to resemble themselves.
But we have been taught since childhood to be unselfish and cooperative.
The poet's unselfish dedication to freedom and his symbolic offering of blood absolve him from guilt, and provide proof of his greatness.
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