- 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. Source: opted
- 2. n. stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others Source: wordnet
- 3. The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love">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. Source: webster
- 4. The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard toone's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self-preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to theadvancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, withoutregarding those of others.Selfishness,- a vice utterly at variance with the happiness of himwho harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love. Sir J.Mackintosh. Source: adambom
- 5. n:100 n. stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others Source: ecdict
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