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Selfishness

Selfishness Meaning & Definition
Selfishness Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Selfishness?

[n] stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others

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See Also | expedience | greediness | opportunism | self-interest | self-seeking | stinginess

Selfishness In Webster's Dictionary

\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. 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}.

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