self-abandonment
noun
self-aban·don·ment
ˌself-ə-ˈban-dən-mənt 
1
: a lack of self-restraint
2
: a surrender of one's selfish interests or desires
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Yet, as Danny watches her real passport being fed into a shredder, the torment of self-abandonment begins to weigh on her.
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Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024
Khaled himself maintains a mysterious inertia that turns Matar’s narrative into a deep and detailed exploration not so much of abandonment as of self-abandonment: the story of a man split in two, one who cannot quite tell the story that would make the parts cohere again.
—The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
The novelist Thomas Mann thought that German expressionism and Nazism both sprang from the same root of emotional self-abandonment.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
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Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024
Khaled himself maintains a mysterious inertia that turns Matar’s narrative into a deep and detailed exploration not so much of abandonment as of self-abandonment: the story of a man split in two, one who cannot quite tell the story that would make the parts cohere again.
—The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
The novelist Thomas Mann thought that German expressionism and Nazism both sprang from the same root of emotional self-abandonment.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
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“Self-abandonment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-abandonment. Accessed 15 Dec. 2024.
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