selfishness

Noun

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Selfishness \Self"ish*ness\, n. 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. [1913 Webster]

Selfishness, -- a vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love. --Sir J. Mackintosh. [1913 Webster]

Syn: See Self-love. [1913 Webster]

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