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Definition of Selfishness
1. Noun. Stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others.
Specialized synonyms: Greediness, Rapaciousness, Voraciousness, Expedience, Opportunism, Self-interest, Self-seeking
Derivative terms: Selfish
Antonyms: Unselfishness
Definition of Selfishness
1. 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.
Definition of Selfishness
1. Noun. the quality of being selfish, the condition of putting one's own interests before those of others ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Selfishness
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Medical Definition of Selfishness
1. 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) Synonym: See Self-love. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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