Meaning and example
the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others
The passage used "altruism" to mean the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.491 places altruism in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 93.6% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 93.7%
pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)
- Known by
- 93.7%
changeable
- Known by
- 93.8%
surrender under agreed conditions
- Known by
- 93.5%
characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation
- Known by
- 93.4%
not injurious to physical or mental health
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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