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self-forgetful
adjective
uk /ˌself.fəˈɡet.fəl/ us /ˌself.fɚˈɡet.fəl/(alsoself-forgetting)
forgetting your own interests, or caring more about what other people need and want than about what you yourself need and want:
He appears to be self-forgetful, but he's actually thinking of himself all the time.
I believe that love should be entirely disinterested and self-forgetful.
She discovered the dignity of faithful, self-forgetting service through her work.
Those children have been raised to be selfish rather than self-forgetful.
She seemed as relaxed and self-forgetful as she had ever been.
They were devoted in a most self-forgetful manner to works of charity.
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