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Meaning of "self-forgetful" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SELF-FORGETFUL

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SELF-FORGETFUL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Self-Forgetful is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SELF-FORGETFUL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of self-forgetful in the English dictionary

The definition of self-forgetful in the dictionary is forgetful of one's own interests.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SELF-FORGETFUL

self-feeder
self-fertile
self-fertilisation
self-fertilised
self-fertilising
self-fertilization
self-fertilized
self-fertilizing
self-filling
self-financing
self-flattery
self-forgetfully
self-forgetfulness
self-fulfilling
self-fulfilling prophecy
self-fulfilment
self-glorification
self-governed
self-governing
self-government

WORDS THAT END LIKE SELF-FORGETFUL

basketful
bucketful
closetful
delightful
disquietful
doubtful
forgetful
fretful
fruitful
hurtful
impactful
insightful
lustful
netful
pocketful
regretful
respectful
restful
streetful
thoughtful

Synonyms and antonyms of self-forgetful in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «self-forgetful» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SELF-FORGETFUL

Find out the translation of self-forgetful to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of self-forgetful from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «self-forgetful» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

忘我
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

abnegado
570 millions of speakers

English

self-forgetful
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आत्म भुलक्कड़
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

- النسيان النفس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

само- забывчивы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

abnegado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্ব-ভুলো
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

oublieuse d´elle-
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Diri pelupa
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

selbstvergessen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

自己忘れっぽい
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자기 건망증
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lali banget
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tự quên
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுய ஞாபக மறதி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्वत: ची विस्मयकारक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

fedakâr
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dimentico di sé
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

self- zapominalskich
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

само- забудькуваті
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

auto- uituc
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αυτο - ξεχασιάρης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

self- vergeetagtig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

själv glömsk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

selvforglemmende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of self-forgetful

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-FORGETFUL»

The term «self-forgetful» is used very little and occupies the 179.796 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-FORGETFUL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about self-forgetful

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SELF-FORGETFUL»

Discover the use of self-forgetful in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to self-forgetful and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Ineffability and Philosophy
The hypothesis under consideration is then that P is in a mystical state at time t if and only if P is self-forgetful at t. Now P's state is unreportable at time t: if P says, at time t, that she's currently being self-forgetful, then she isn't. But there's no ...
André Kukla, Professor of Psychology and Philosophy Andre Kukla, 2004
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Love, Human and Divine: The Heart of Christian Ethics
In self-forgetful acts, however, awareness of the self and its interests is outside explicit consciousness, e.g., the emergency room doctor forgets her fatigue since she is wholly intent on the bleeding man before her. Self-attention is that form of ...
Edward Collins Vacek, 1994
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Mercy Immense and Free: Essays on Wesley and Wesleyan Theology
Love of God has to be self-forgetful, or else what we call “love for God” is nothing more than a tool for using God, exploiting him. Love of neighbour has to be self- forgetful, or else what we call “love of neighbour” is nothing more than a pretext ...
Victor A. Shepherd, 2010
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Phenomenological Inquiry in Psychology: Existential and ...
137ff Self-dislike, I36ff Self-embraced, 313 Self-enhancement, 25 1 Self-esteem. 322 Self-experience. 198. 261 Self-exploration, 243. 264 Self-expression, 197 Self-forgetful, 285. 376 Self-forgetful experience, 310 Self-forgetful perception, 285 ...
Ron Valle, 1998
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A Guide to Heidegger's Being and Time
... in the surrounding world. To this retention corresponds a nonretention that presents us with a kind of "forgetting" in the derivative sense. (SZ, 339) The self- forgetful way of having-been hides the "what" before which it retreats (das Wovor)  ...
Magda King, John Llewellyn, 2001
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C.S. Lewis & Narnia For Dummies
self-forgetful”. “Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith,” says Hebrews 12:2. When you follow that command, your attention falls more and more on Christ and less and less on yourself; you become more humble and ...
Richard Wagner, 2011
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The Concept of Passivity in Husserl's Phenomenology
Depending on how great the gap separating the inside from the outside flow is, Husserl distinguishes two types of memorial experiences: reflective remembering and self-forgetful remembering (selbstvergessenes Erinnern) (APS, 593).
Victor Biceaga, 2010
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The Denial of Death
Only if one achieves these can he “do the species role” in a self-forgetful way, a way that does not threaten to submerge him with annihilation anxiety. When we sum up this whole problem we can see that there are several ways to overcome ...
Ernest Becker, 2007
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Heaven, the Heart's Deepest Longing
After death we are ravished even further: not only out of our bodies but out of our souls, our selves. Heaven is so self-forgetful that mystics who have experienced foretastes of it here often say they were absorbed into God, annihilated, or seen ...
Peter Kreeft, 1989
10
Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of it
What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.36 Elizabeth's sketchy notebooks from these years show her also considering a poem about ...
Brett Candlish Millier, 1993

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SELF-FORGETFUL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term self-forgetful is used in the context of the following news items.
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A Spiritual Utopia Struggles With Crime and Corruption
“The nineteenth century in India was imitative, self-forgetful, artificial. It aimed at a successful reproduction of Europe in India,” he wrote in his publication ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»
2
The Latin American Pope and the Irish Poet
The speaker then asks, which is he, self-forgetful or in agony? Heaney's continued focus on physical details more or less favors the latter option without saying it. «First Things, Jun 15»
3
Inner Truth: Love is Action
... significance of affection is more than words: it is the tender, unselfish deed done in secret; the silent, ceaseless prayer; the self-forgetful heart that overflows. «Daily News & Analysis, Jun 15»
4
Fall In Love With Content Creation
Falling in love might be described as curiosity heightened to its most intense, outward-focused, adoring state. You become self-forgetful. All you can think about ... «Business 2 Community, Jun 15»
5
Marotta: What we lose in our self-absorption
It isn't easy to be self-forgetful, I know, especially in this Internet culture where everyone but your pet hamster maintains a carefully crafted public “profile. «MetroWest Daily News, May 15»
6
Automatic Writing
Explaining the power of liturgical habit, Paul Griffiths (Decreation) offers writing as an example of the self-forgetful, and world-forgetful, character of habit. It's one ... «First Things, Apr 15»
7
The Real Enemy of Joy: Selfishness
He was generous-hearted, self-effacing and self-forgetful and thoughtful and practical in his help and counsel … in a word (or two): self-giving. He did not just ... «National Catholic Register, Mar 15»
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C. S. Lewis on the Purposes for Suffering
The recompense for pain is truly freeing self-forgetful humility. This only makes sense if God, and relationship with that God, is truly the greatest good. Therefore ... «Huffington Post, Feb 15»
9
Of grace and eloquence
... the grace and grandeur of the Lord and His divine attributes and the underlying emotions of devotional joy in a self-forgetful mood came through superbly. «The Hindu, Jan 15»
10
KAAPICHINO: The eclectic, inclusive myth of Siva down the ages
Siva however, remains oblivious to onlookers; his self-forgetful dancing is an act of creation”. Intriguingly, our oldest myths are most conducive to reinterpretation ... «Daily News & Analysis, Oct 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Self-Forgetful [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/self-forgetful>. May 2024 ».
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