Definition of Selfness

1. n. Selfishness.

Definition of Selfness

1. Noun. The quality or state of being oneself. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Selfness

1. selfhood [n -ES] - See also: selfhood

Medical Definition of Selfness

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)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Selfness

selfisms
selfist
selfists
selfless
selflessly
selflessness
selflessnesses
selflike
selfline
selflines
selfly
selfmate
selfmates
selfmetathesis
selfname
selfness (current term)
selfnesses
selforganization
selforganized
selforganizing
selfquenching
selfs
selfsame
selfsame(a)
selfsameness
selfsamenesses
selfsecure
selfsimilar
selfslaughter
selfsome

Literary usage of Selfness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Methods of Obtaining Success by Julia Seton (1914)
"EIGHTH SUCCESS METHOD selfness • WHEN one has arrived at the eighth fundamental, he is beginning to have an intelligent idea of just what life requires of ..."

2. Epistemology; Or, The Theory of Knowledge: An Introduction to General by Peter Coffey (1917)
"So, too, some data of our conscious cognition are marked by a peculiar feature which intellect interprets as internality or selfness, and others by an ..."

3. The Philosophy of Religion on the Basis of Its History by Otto Pfleiderer (1887)
"Now God's essence is selfness and wholeness, and therefore these highest ... Mind answers to the side of the selfness of God, for every mind lives ..."

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