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Definition of Self-concern
1. Noun. Concern for your own interests and welfare.
Generic synonyms: Trait
Antonyms: Altruism
Derivative terms: Egoist, Egoist, Self-centered
Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-concern
Literary usage of Self-concern
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Study of Ethical Principles by James Seth (1905)
"These are instances of the obvious over-development of self-consciousness and
self-concern. Better far to forget ourselves than to be thus ever mindful; ..."
2. A Few Sheaves of Devon Bibliography by John Ingle Dredge (1889)
"... my own experience soon convinced, that those my favourable thoughts were most
just : and now I have thought my self concern'd to tell the ..."
3. The British Harbinger by David King (1870)
"As long as the religious life expresses itself in mere self-concern to escape
the penalty of ... Undue self-concern is the shutting out of light and air, ..."
4. The preacher's commentary on the Book of Jeremiah by William Harvey- Jellie, Frederick William Brown (1882)
"Nevertheless he exhibits wounded self-concern, which shows a lack of ...
indicate this self-concern as unduly prominent, especially at such a crisis. ..."
5. The Science of Education Designed as a Text-book for Teachers by Francis Bolles Palmer (1887)
"... they tend may have ourselves or other objects equally well for their end.
(12.) The lowest of the feelings of self-concern is that of personal identity. ..."
6. Sociology: The Science of Human Society by John Henry Wilbrandt Stuckenberg (1903)
"What interests a man is a revelation of his character, and that character can be
cultivated in many directions besides self-concern. Self-interest of course ..."
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