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Definitions of altruism:
  • noun:   the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others



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beneficence benevolence benignancy benignity charitableness charity goodwill grace kindheartedness kindliness kindness philanthropy attitude-good-attitude-bad-attitude-neutral-attitude kind-cruel game-theory auguste-comte egoism herbert-spencer john-stuart-mill compulsion altruistic-2 admixture disposition stimulate joyous egotism coincide aggressor jealousy satisfaction negation puberty intermediary ego-superego-and-id infantile gratification renunciation instinct gratify envy narcissism cyrano-de-bergerac masculine psychodynamics anorexic civilization-and-its-discontents-psychoanalysis pathological charles-maurice-de-talleyrand ivan-illich mandell-creighton la-bruyere-jean-de william-blake altruism-ethics quality-of-life virtue ethic-of-reciprocity ethical-egoism friedrich-nietzsche loyalty duty god-john-lennon-song monarchy government patriotism philosophy ethics-legal-term psychologist list-of-sociologists evolutionary-biology ethology french-language latin positivism good-economics-and-accounting social-evolution fitness ultimatum-game parasitism bounded-rationality herbert-simon conscience kin-selection eusociality the-selfish-gene meme religion reciprocal-altruism sexual-selection handicap-principle reciprocity reputation george-r-price price-equation slime-mould dictyostelid amoeboid ecological-self arne-n-ss id-ego-and-super-ego maslow-s-hierarchy-of-needs