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selfishness |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. --Sir J. Mackintosh. Syn: See {Self-love}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: selfishness n : stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others [ant: {unselfishness}]
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