ego-altruistic love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating or pertaining to one's self and to others. See the extract.

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  • Surveying the subject, then, from this ego-altruistic position, we can perceive why matrimony, as we practise it, should result in increasing the personality of our race: for the reason namely that psychical similarity determines the selection.

    The Soul of the Far East Percival Lowell 1885

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