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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun altruist has 1 sense

• altruist(n = noun.person) philanthropist - someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being; Array
is a kind of bestower, conferrer, donor, giver, presenter
has particulars: 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
Derived forms noun altruism₁, adjective altruistic₁

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altruist

Benevolence

N benevolence, Christian charity, God's love, God's grace, good will, philanthropy, unselfishness, good nature, good feeling, good wishes, kindness, kindliness, loving-kindness, benignity, brotherly love, charity, humanity, fellow-feeling, sympathy, goodness of heart, warmth of heart, bonhomie, kind-heartedness, amiability, milk of human kindness, tenderness, love, friendship, toleration, consideration, generosity, mercy, charitableness, bounty, almsgiving, good works, beneficence, the luxury of doing good, acts of kindness, a good turn, good offices, kind offices good treatment, kind treatment, good Samaritan, sympathizer, bon enfant, altruist, benevolent, kind, kindly, well-meaning, amiable, obliging, accommodating, indulgent, gracious, complacent, good-humored, warm-hearted, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, large-hearted, broad- hearted, merciful, charitable, beneficent, humane, benignant, bounteous, bountiful, good-natured, well-natured, spleenless, sympathizing, sympathetic, complaisant, well-meant, well-intentioned, fatherly, motherly, brotherly, sisterly, paternal, maternal, fraternal, sororal, friendly, with a good intention, with the best intentions, Int, Godspeed!, much good may it do!, act a charity sometimes, a tender heart, a will inflexible, de mortuis nil nisi bonum, say only good things about the dead, don't speak ill of the dead, kind words are more than coronets, quando amigo pide no hay manana, the social smile, the sympathetic tear.

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