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
- post-coital
- post-coitally
- post coitum
- postcolonial
- postcolonialism
- postcolonialist
- post-coloniality
- post-Columbian
- postcolumellar
- post-communion
- post-communism
- post-communist
- post-conciliar
- post-concussion
- post-concussional
- post-concussional syndrome
- post-concussion syndrome
- post-conflict
- post-connubial
- post-conquest
- post-consonantal
- post-consonantic
- post-consumer
- post-contact
- post-convulsive