selfishness

[Self·ish*ness]

Stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others

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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.

Noun
stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others


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

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.
Syn. -- See Self-love.

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.

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Usage Examples

I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope it is impossible.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Selfishness is the only real atheism unselfishness the only real religion.

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

How sick one gets of being 'good,' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours embody selfishness.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

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