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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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GRIP
(noun) an intellectual hold or understanding; “a good grip on French history”; “they kept a firm grip on the two top priorities”; “he was in the grip of a powerful emotion”; “a terrible power had her in its grasp”
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