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Definition of altruistic : Regardful of others; beneficent; unselfish; - opposed to egoistic or selfish.

Synonyms:

good, philanthropical, selfless, goodhearted, kindhearted, benign, study atphilanthropic, benignant, give, kindly, eleemosynary, attitude

compassionate, humane, beneficent, munificent, neighborly, humanitarian, chivalrous, high-minded, philanthropic, benevolent, considerate, kind, noble, charitable, motherly, unselfish, bountiful, alms-giving, generous

greathearted, gracious, magnanimous, hospitable

Usage examples:

• Conservation is but the larger and more altruistic expression of the term known as thrift; and ignorance and poverty know it not.
• Some of the motives were, perhaps, all kindness: Lady Elliston had always been kind; she had always been a binder of wounds, a dispenser of punctual sunlight; she was one of the world's powerfully benignant great ladies; committees clustered round her; her words of assured wisdom sustained and guided ecclesiastical and political organisations; one must be benignant, in an altruistic modern world, if one wanted to rule. - "Amabel Channice", Anne Douglas Sedgwick.
• And we must remember that thoughts and motives are material, and at times marvellously potent material, forces, and we may then begin to comprehend why the hero, sacrificing his life on pure altruistic grounds, sinks as his life- blood ebbs away into a sweet dream, wherein All that he wishes and all that he loves, Come smiling round his sunny way, only to wake into active or objective consciousness when reborn in the Region of Happiness, while the poor unhappy and misguided mortal who, seeking to elude fate, selfishly loosens the silver string and breaks the golden bowl, finds himself terribly alive and awake, instinct with all the evil cravings and desires that embittered his world- life, without a body in which to gratify these, and capable of only such partial alleviation as is possible by more or less vicarious gratification, and this only at the cost of the ultimate complete rupture with his sixth and seventh principles, and consequent ultimate annihilation after, alas! - "Death--and After?", Annie Besant.