selfishness Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others
WordNet
Self"ish*ness noun
Definitions
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 .
