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Webster 1913 Edition
Selfishness
Self′ish-ness
,Noun.
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
. Definition 2024
selfishness
selfishness
English
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
Translations
quality of being selfish