If you describe someone as unselfish, you approve of the fact that they regard other people's wishes and interests as more important than their own. She started to get a reputation as an unselfish girl with a heart of gold. As a player he was unselfish, a true team man.

Is there a word unselfishness?

The quality or state of being generous: big-heartedness, bounteousness, bountifulness, freehandedness, generosity, generousness, great-heartedness, large-heartedness, lavishness, liberality, magnanimity, magnanimousness, munificence, openhandedness, unsparingness.

What does the word unselfishness mean?

: not selfish : generous.