Hypertext Webster Gateway: "selfishness"
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) 1.7 (wn)
selfishness
n : stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and
a disregard of others [ant: {unselfishness}]
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