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Definition of Altruist
1. Noun. Someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being.
Generic synonyms: Bestower, Conferrer, Donor, Giver, Presenter
Specialized synonyms: Andrew Carnegie, Carnegie, Cooper, Peter Cooper, Cornell, Ezra Cornell, Guggenheim, Solomon Guggenheim, Harvard, John Harvard, Hershey, Milton Snavely Hershey, Hopkins, Johns Hopkins, Andrew Mellon, Andrew W. Mellon, Andrew William Mellon, Mellon, Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Alfred Nobel, Nobel, First Viscount Nuffield, Nuffield, William Richard Morris, John D. Rockefeller, John Davison Rockefeller, Rockefeller, Commodore Vanderbilt, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt, Elihu Yale, Yale
Derivative terms: Altruism, Altruistic, Philanthropy
Definition of Altruist
1. n. One imbued with altruism; -- opposed to egoist.
Definition of Altruist
1. Noun. One imbued with altruism; ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Altruist
1. one that practices altruism [n -S] - See also: altruism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Altruist
Literary usage of Altruist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1900)
"HOPE altruist. ^MNCE we are knocking at the door of the twentieth cen- V—' tury,
it would seem out of place to address enlightened people on the above ..."
2. The Good Man and the Good: An Introduction to Ethics by Mary Whiton Calkins (1918)
"The clear understanding that every man is, in this fundamental sense, both egoist
and altruist and that the two attitudes are not incompatible is an ..."
3. Our Immortality by Daniel Pomeroy Rhodes (1919)
"Under the conditions, however, that the practical altruist must endeavour to
bring about in all departments of life, the ready accessibility of all ..."
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