WordNet
self-forgetful
adj. showing lack of self-interest
Usage examples of "self-forgetful".
It was a question very different in quality from the frank and self-forgetful externalized curiosity with which Thales and Heraclitus were attacking the problems of the universe, or the equally self-forgetful burthen of moral obligation that the culminating prophets were imposing upon the Hebrew mind.
There was a quickening of the conscience and an appeal to generous and self-forgetful ends.
Phebe's cry was answered, her self-forgetful task accomplished, and her long vigil rewarded with a happy dawn.
You don't see any little sausage fingers playing with tufts of fur in self-forgetful response to some obscure haptic urge.