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

It seems to spring from more intense excitement and self-abandonment than the ordinary song delivered from the perch.

From Ways of Nature by Burroughs, John

He hurried from briar to briar under the pale evening sky, tearing the rain-washed sprays from their stems, hardly recognising himself in the man who was so defiantly exultant in his self-abandonment.

From Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel by Veley, Margaret

He preaches self-renunciation; but the self-renunciation he commends is not self-mortification; it is the active self-abandonment of devotion to our appropriate work.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various

The richest experience, the purest aspiration, the humblest self-abandonment that was ever felt, could not reach forward to supply the morrow.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by Chadwick, G. A.