self-forgetting

American  

[self-fer-get-ing, self-] / ˈsɛlf fərˈgɛt ɪŋ, ˌsɛlf- /

adjective

1. self-forgetful.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• self-forgettingly
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of self-forgetting

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

From MSNBC • Oct. 15, 2014

The Divine life is a self-forgetting life, a life that has nothing to do but love and bless.

From Days of Heaven Upon Earth by Simpson, A. B. (Albert B.)

Brave O-kis-ko loved the maiden With a love which made him noble; With the love that self-forgetting Fills the soul with higher impulse.

From The White Doe The Fate of Virginia Dare by Cotten, Sallie Southall

His whole-hearted, absolutely self-forgetting labor, and his reach after the highest standards in his art, from 1902 to 1919, made Mr. Hallam dear not only to his choir, but to all Chautauquans.

From The Story of Chautauqua by Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman

I want you to observe that in what I did there was simply the spontaneous wisdom of love—love, not fondness, not desire of reciprocation, but self-forgetting and reverent of its object.

From Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School by Peabody, Elizabeth P. (Palmer)