Usually means: Denial of one's own interests.
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  1. self-abnegation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. self-abnegation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. self-abnegation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. self-abnegation, self-abnegation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. self-abnegation: Vocabulary.com
  6. self-abnegation: Wordnik
  7. self-abnegation: Wiktionary
  8. self-abnegation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. self-abnegation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. self-abnegation: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. self-abnegation: Dictionary.com
  12. Self-abnegation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Self-abnegation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. self-abnegation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. self-abnegation: Rhymezone
  16. Self-abnegation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. self-abnegation: Free Dictionary
  18. self-abnegation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. self-abnegation: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. self-abnegation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. self-abnegation: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (self-abnegation)

noun:  The denial or invalidation of one's own needs, interests, etc. for the sake of another's; the setting aside of self-interest.
noun:  (countable) An act of self-denial.

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