About The Word Selfishness
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Selfishness
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What's The Definition Of Selfishness?
[n] stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others
Synonyms | Synonyms for Selfishness: Related Terms | Find terms related to Selfishness: 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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