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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The giving up of one's own benefit for the good of others..
Caring for a loved one with a chronic illness inevitably involves self-sacrifice.
Whatever he was suffering, it was she who had caused it; he had vacated his house on account of her. She was not worth such self-sacrifice; she should not have accepted it of him.
Some of those boys came straight from the cornfields with only a summer’s wages in their pockets, hung on through the four years, shabby and underfed, and completed the course by really heroic self-sacrifice.
Turians have a strong inclination towards public service and self-sacrifice, so they tend to be poor entrepreneurs.
[…] he turned his resourceful mind away from the serene life of a don on grass lawns in Cambridge to one of self-sacrifice and pure devotion in the thorny bushes of Africa.
His brave self-sacrifice won him a posthumous medal, but I think he'd have preferred to receive it in person.
[Scott’s Last Expedition] had been one of my own favourite books. It seemed curiously dated now, this heroism with only the ice for enemy, self-sacrifice that involved no deaths beyond one’s own.
However, something once happened on the railway there which showed the very best of mankind: heroism, duty, self-sacrifice and calm professionalism under terrible pressure. It is a story which gives us far, far better reasons for remembering this attractive little town, which without these heroes would have been blown to smithereens in a gigantic explosion. (Two railwaymen lost their lives in 1944 when a wagon in an ammunition train caught fire and blew up, an even worse disaster was averted however.)
Use self-sacrifice when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Self-sacrifice means The giving up of one's own benefit for the good of others..
Common synonyms include self-abnegation, self-denial, selflessness.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Caring for a loved one with a chronic illness inevitably involves self-sacrifice.
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