self-abandonment
(also self-abandon)
noun [mass noun]
The action of completely surrendering oneself to a desire or impulse: many people live in fear of self-abandonment...
- What impulse led to this act of reckless self-abandonment?
- As far as prognoses of this sort go, in the last eighty years we intellectuals have become - quite independently of philosophical and political orientation - sceptical to the point of self-abandonment.
- How am I to find the naturalness, artlessness, utter self-abandonment of nature in the utmost artificiality of human works?
Derivatives
self-abandoned
- at (or in) close quarters
- at (or in) law
- at (or in) one fell swoop
- at (or on) short (or a moment's) notice
- at (or on) the heels of
- at (or to) heel
- infructescence
- in fruit
- infula
- in full
- in full career
- in full cry
- in full face
- in full flight
- in full flow
- (in) full rig
- in (full) spate
- in full swing
- in full view
- in fun
- infundibular
- infundibulum
- in funds
- infuriate
- infuriating