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

The very phrase offends some ancient canon fixed against self-abandonment in the very blood and bone of womankind.

From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Robins, Elizabeth

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.

Lucian says: "Achilles, bewailing the death of Patroclus with unhusbanded passion, broke forth into the truth in self-abandonment to woe."

From A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion by Symonds, John Addington

He must next recite them with perfect simplicity and self-abandonment.

From Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science by Mackinlay, M. (Malcolm) Sterling