The purpose of watching a dance or looking at a painting is to experience a mood, ‘a kind of enjoyment which is self-forgetful and transporting’.
Jane often showed that self-forgetful ecstasy when absorbed in some subject or pursuit.
Derivatives
self-forgetfulness
noun
The author suggests that in a fruitful search for truth we must experience a self-forgetfulness that is not self-annihilation, but a form of pleasure.
Example sentencesExamples
The challenge for the preacher is to talk about self-denying service in a way that does not ignore the fact that it is the rare person who receives his or her authority from self-forgetfulness.
The generous explanation of such negative behaviour is that it results from self-forgetfulness: forgetting where the boundaries of one's own knowledge lie.
In such a setting, the effort to worship fruitfully - to pray in unison, with self-forgetfulness and delight - can seem painful, even futile.
Love and a spirit of self-forgetfulness took complete possession of my heart, and thenceforward I was perfectly happy.
I know for a while again the health of self-forgetfulness, looking out at the sky through a notch in the valley side, the black woods wintry on the hills, small clouds at sunset passing across.
Definition of self-forgetful in US English:
self-forgetful
adjective
Forgetful of oneself or one's needs.
忘我的，无私的
true, self-forgetful charity
Example sentencesExamples
The purpose of watching a dance or looking at a painting is to experience a mood, ‘a kind of enjoyment which is self-forgetful and transporting’.
Jane often showed that self-forgetful ecstasy when absorbed in some subject or pursuit.