SELFISHNESS

selfishness

(noun) stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

selfishness (countable and uncountable, plural selfishnesses)

the quality of being selfish; the condition of putting one's own interests before those of others.

Antonyms

• selflessness

Source: Wiktionary


Self"ish*ness, n.

Definition: The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self- preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding those of others. Selfishness,- a vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love. Sir J. Mackintosh.

Syn.

– See Self-love.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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