Generosity is a virtue that not many people have. There are some that are always cool with helping people that are facing one challenge or another in their life. When it comes to your personality, can you say that you are a generous person or have people made you to stop being generous?
Should note the distinction between 'personality': which refers to ones conception of an "ego"-"selfness" construct.
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'character': which refers to ones core nature, or "authentic"-"self".
'Personality' at any given moment is the result of all experience up to that point and is defined by external & internal influences upon the individual × how the individual perceives & incorporates those influences within the "ego"-"selfness" construct.
'Character' seems to remain consistent throughout the transient embodiment within matter bound experience.
However the expression of ones intrinsic core character qualities can either be inhibited or realized dependant upon ones "persona" construct and current capacities or lack thereof for wilful assumption of "self" responsibility.
Where disregard arises from ignorance of ignorance and indicative of an individual functioning from an idle state of being. Ie: Stuck on perpetual "ego"-pilot.
Alternatively wilful assumption of "self" responsibility seems to enable drastic expansions of consciousness thusly increasing "authentic"-"self" expressive potentials.
'Generosity' is describing action rather than a core quality.
'Selflessness' refers to core quality.
The difference is fundamental.
For an individual to be regarded as acting "generously" it must be in the presence of witnesses or the act simply remains unknown to any but the individual.
An individual of selfless core character will unlikely consider their acts of generosity as anything other than normal behaviour.
On the other hand, one lacking "authentic"-"self" expressive potentials may be acting "generosly" with intention to deceive witnesses, they may not even be aware due to "self"-delusion,... they will primarily seek an audience of witnesses in front of whom to perform the "generosity"-act.
An easy example to see this is on any social media platform. Simply take note of individuals who virtue signal "generous" acts. What is the purpose of doing so?
A truly selfless individual does not care whether their selfless acts of generosity are witnessed. What others believe is entirely irrelevant to the authenticity of the self.
