Usually means: Acting without personal gain consideration.
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  1. selflessly: Merriam-Webster
  2. selflessly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. selflessly: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. selflessly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  8. selflessly: Dictionary.com
  9. Selflessly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  11. selflessly: FreeDictionary.org
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▸ adverb:  In a selfless manner; done in a way that disregards concerns for the self and places other first.

Similar:
altruistically, unselfishly, self-sacrificingly, unaltruistically, selfishly, nonaltruistically, unegoistically, thoughtfully, self-indulgently, egoistically, more...

Opposite:
selfishly, egotistically, narcissistically

Types:
altruism, altruistic, egoism, egotism, selfishness, more...

Phrases:
love selflessly, more...



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Similar:
altruistically, unselfishly, self-sacrificingly, unaltruistically, selfishly, nonaltruistically, unegoistically, thoughtfully, self-indulgently, egoistically, more...

Opposite:
selfishly, egotistically, narcissistically

Types:
altruism, altruistic, egoism, egotism, selfishness, more...

Phrases:
love selflessly, more...



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