altruism

Etymology
From, which was coined in 1830 by from , from , from , dative of  (whence also English ). Apparently inspired by the French Latin legal phrase, from. Introduced into English by in 1853, in his translation Comte’s Philosophy of the Sciences, 1, xxi.

Noun

 * 1) Regard for others, both natural and moral without regard for oneself; devotion to the interests of others; brotherly kindness.
 * 2)  Action or behaviour that benefits another or others at some cost to the performer.
 * 1)  Action or behaviour that benefits another or others at some cost to the performer.
 * 1)  Action or behaviour that benefits another or others at some cost to the performer.
 * 1)  Action or behaviour that benefits another or others at some cost to the performer.
 * 1)  Action or behaviour that benefits another or others at some cost to the performer.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: إِيثَار, غَيْرِيَّة
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: altruísmu
 * Azerbaijani: altruizm
 * Belarusian: альтруі́зм
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: altruismo
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ალტრუიზმი
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: परहितवाद
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: altrúchas, soilíos
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 利他主義, 利他
 * Kazakh: альтруизм
 * Korean:, 리타주의(利他主義) , 이타(利他), 리타(利他) , 이타심, 리타심
 * Latvian: altruisms
 * Macedonian: алтруи́зам
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: алтруѝзам
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: altruizmus
 * Slovene: altruizem
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: алтруизм
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek: altruism
 * Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa vị tha

Etymology
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