self-sacrifice.

Giving up your own interests, comfort, or safety for other people or a cause.

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Words that belong together

• an act of self-sacrifice
• demand self-sacrifice

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The organization praised self-sacrifice while asking almost nothing of its leaders.

Usage notes

Primary category: psychology / human behavior. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: character, interpretation. Commonness: moderately common.