self-abandonment

American  

[self-uh-ban-duhn-muhnt] / ˈsɛlf əˈbæn dən mənt /

Sometimes self-abandon

noun

1. absence or lack of personal restraint.

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Etymology

Origin of self-abandonment

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

And though it may be the warp of my own experiential lens, I have always found the men disproportionately drawn to these structures of mediated self-abandonment.

From Forbes • Oct. 16, 2014

To be disturbed in one's intimate sorrow and self-abandonment at a death-bed by a stranger's intrusion, an alien voice....

From Mortal Coils by Huxley, Aldous

Like Johnson, in his Grub Street days, he will have his hours when bitterness passes into self-abandonment, and he will sound the depths of that world of corruption which in his better moods he loathes.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel

His strongest sympathies are reserved for those who suffer by abandoning themselves to impulse, and in this self-abandonment he sees the poetry of life.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington

There was an ease and self-abandonment about his appearance that were really beautiful.

From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by Riley, H. H.