self-abandonment

American  

[self-uh-ban-duhn-muhnt] / ˈsɛlf əˈbæn dən mənt /

Sometimes self-abandon

noun

1. absence or lack of personal restraint.

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Etymology

Origin of self-abandonment

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

And though it may be the warp of my own experiential lens, I have always found the men disproportionately drawn to these structures of mediated self-abandonment.

From Forbes • Oct. 16, 2014

There was an ease and self-abandonment about his appearance that were really beautiful.

From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by Riley, H. H.

Those are at the surface, and soon over, they cure grief by their very bitterness, and by the self-abandonment of the sufferer; the others lie deeper and break the heart.

From It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) by Wood, Mrs. Henry

To be disturbed in one's intimate sorrow and self-abandonment at a death-bed by a stranger's intrusion, an alien voice....

From Mortal Coils by Huxley, Aldous

Even in her folly of the previous day, even in her reckless self-abandonment to a silly passion, Sophia had not lacked the qualities that make for sacrifice--courage, generosity, staunchness.

From Sophia A Romance by Weyman, Stanley John