self-abandonment

Sometimes self-a·ban·don

[self-uh-ban-duhn-muhnt]

noun

1. absence or lack of personal restraint.

Word History and Origins

Origin of self-abandonment¹

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

Oh, that fear of his self-abandonment—far worse than my abandonment—how it goaded me!

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As performed by Geoffrey Streatfeild and Julian Ovenden, this dance seems to encompass the whole course of a relationship – and arguably of a collective moment in gay history – as it progresses from energizing self-abandonment to a wilting self-awareness.

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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.

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We can fall for people who seem to complete, like a perfect puzzle piece, a side of us that is not healthy, who answer some call in us for sweet rescue or some fantasy of self-abandonment, some fantasy of giving up our autonomy, of reversion or return, of regression.

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

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