self-forgetting

American  

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

adjective

1. self-forgetful.

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Other Word Forms

• self-forgettingly
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of self-forgetting

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

self-forgetting

For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.

From MSNBC ● Oct. 15, 2014

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 Elizabeth P. (Palmer) Peabody

But what he could not easily do was easy for the dogs; Roland became the self-forgetting child again, when he was with the dogs, who had grown so astonishingly in a few days.

From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

The reformers were a self-forgetting, passionate, often a frenzied party, and as a rule, firebrands do not follow icebergs.

From Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period by Furneaux Jordan

No, the sum of his wide and hard experience of life, of his sorrows, joys, and disappointments was expressed in that beautiful, anxious, self-forgetting dream of the coming happiness of others.

From Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov by I. A. Bunin