noun
abandonment
Unrestrained surrender to emotion or enjoyment.
She sings with joyful abandonment, forgetting the people around her.
Etymology
Abandon carries the idea of surrender or letting go. Here the resulting state is a surrender of restraint, so emotion or enjoyment takes over freely.
More examples
- The music invites a moment of complete abandonment.
- He dances with an abandonment rarely seen outside his home.
- Their laughter grows into an abandonment of ordinary restraint.