What should be on “altruistic” or “altruist”?

I was to fill in a blank with proper word beside its definition which was:

Unselfish, more interested in the welfare of others than in one’s own.

One of the key answers is: “Altruistic”. I don’t know why I am feeling that there should be “altruist” instead of “altruistic” as the answer since “altruistic” are “tendencies, behaviour”. Can “altruist” be used too, as a noun?

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If you are describing a thing, say a person,

you might write:

His (altruistic) behavior

Here the morphology is altruetic.

His altruistic behavior

  • -of or like
  • -a thing or person -root If you

are describing say in a copula/existential/stative way which (employs an article in English) You might

write: His

Who is an altruist


by his own admission? How do other questions tilt? How does “unselfish” in this question writer’s case relate to the third person – subject territory, but it is like an adjective – so yeah that’s a picky test ya got there? Altruist, in any morphology, isn’t in any menus or user guides…

Answered on April 28, 2021.
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If you are describing a thing, say a person,

you might write:

His (altruistic) behavior

Here the morphology is altruetic.

His altruistic behavior

  • -of or like
  • -a thing or person -root If you

are describing say in a copula/existential/stative way which (employs an article in English) You might

write: His

Who is an altruist


by his own admission? How do other questions tilt? How does “unselfish” in this question writer’s case relate to the third person – subject territory, but it is like an adjective – so yeah that’s a picky test ya got there? Altruist, in any morphology, isn’t in any menus or user guides…

Answered on April 30, 2021.
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If you are describing a thing, say a person,

you might write:

His (altruistic) behavior

Here the morphology is altruetic.

His altruistic behavior

  • -of or like
  • -a thing or person -root If you

are describing say in a copula/existential/stative way which (employs an article in English) You might

write: His

Who is an altruist


by his own admission? How do other questions tilt? How does “unselfish” in this question writer’s case relate to the third person – subject territory, but it is like an adjective – so yeah that’s a picky test ya got there? Altruist, in any morphology, isn’t in any menus or user guides…

Answered on April 9, 2021.
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If you are describing a thing, say a person,

you might write:

His (altruistic) behavior

Here the morphology is altruetic.

His altruistic behavior

  • -of or like
  • -a thing or person -root If you

are describing say in a copula/existential/stative way which (employs an article in English) You might

write: His

Who is an altruist


by his own admission? How do other questions tilt? How does “unselfish” in this question writer’s case relate to the third person – subject territory, but it is like an adjective – so yeah that’s a picky test ya got there? Altruist, in any morphology, isn’t in any menus or user guides…

Answered on April 13, 2021.
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If you are describing a thing, say a person,

you might write:

His (altruistic) behavior

Here the morphology is altruetic.

His altruistic behavior

  • -of or like
  • -a thing or person -root If you

are describing say in a copula/existential/stative way which (employs an article in English) You might

write: His

Who is an altruist


by his own admission? How do other questions tilt? How does “unselfish” in this question writer’s case relate to the third person – subject territory, but it is like an adjective – so yeah that’s a picky test ya got there? Altruist, in any morphology, isn’t in any menus or user guides…

Answered on April 14, 2021.
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If you are describing a thing, say a person,

you might write:

His (altruistic) behavior

Here the morphology is altruetic.

His altruistic behavior

  • -of or like
  • -a thing or person -root If you

are describing say in a copula/existential/stative way which (employs an article in English) You might

write: His

Who is an altruist


by his own admission? How do other questions tilt? How does “unselfish” in this question writer’s case relate to the third person – subject territory, but it is like an adjective – so yeah that’s a picky test ya got there? Altruist, in any morphology, isn’t in any menus or user guides…

Answered on April 15, 2021.
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If you are describing a thing, say a person,

you might write:

His (altruistic) behavior

Here the morphology is altruetic.

His altruistic behavior

  • -of or like
  • -a thing or person -root If you

are describing say in a copula/existential/stative way which (employs an article in English) You might

write: His

Who is an altruist


by his own admission? How do other questions tilt? How does “unselfish” in this question writer’s case relate to the third person – subject territory, but it is like an adjective – so yeah that’s a picky test ya got there? Altruist, in any morphology, isn’t in any menus or user guides…

Answered on April 17, 2021.
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If you are describing a thing, say a person,

you might write:

His (altruistic) behavior

Here the morphology is altruetic.

His altruistic behavior

  • -of or like
  • -a thing or person -root If you

are describing say in a copula/existential/stative way which (employs an article in English) You might

write: His

Who is an altruist


by his own admission? How do other questions tilt? How does “unselfish” in this question writer’s case relate to the third person – subject territory, but it is like an adjective – so yeah that’s a picky test ya got there? Altruist, in any morphology, isn’t in any menus or user guides…

Answered on April 19, 2021.
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If you are describing a thing, say a person,

you might write:

His (altruistic) behavior

Here the morphology is altruetic.

His altruistic behavior

  • -of or like
  • -a thing or person -root If you

are describing say in a copula/existential/stative way which (employs an article in English) You might

write: His

Who is an altruist


by his own admission? How do other questions tilt? How does “unselfish” in this question writer’s case relate to the third person – subject territory, but it is like an adjective – so yeah that’s a picky test ya got there? Altruist, in any morphology, isn’t in any menus or user guides…

Answered on April 19, 2021.
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If you are describing a thing, say a person,

you might write:

His (altruistic) behavior

Here the morphology is altruetic.

His altruistic behavior

  • -of or like
  • -a thing or person -root If you

are describing say in a copula/existential/stative way which (employs an article in English) You might

write: His

Who is an altruist


by his own admission? How do other questions tilt? How does “unselfish” in this question writer’s case relate to the third person – subject territory, but it is like an adjective – so yeah that’s a picky test ya got there? Altruist, in any morphology, isn’t in any menus or user guides…

Answered on April 22, 2021.
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