Canadian English Meaning of selfishness

Selfishness

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Definitions and Meaning of selfishness in English

Wordnet

selfishness (n)

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

Webster

selfishness (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.

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Selfishness

stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of othersThe quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest

Ego,Egoism,pridefulness,Selfishness,vanity,Complacency,Egocentricity,egomania,egotism,Narcissism

Altruism,Fairness,generosity,magnanimity,Selflessness,self-sacrifice,Selflessness,Detachment,disinterestedness,Impartiality

selfishly => selflessly, selfish person => selfish person, selfish => selfish, self-involved => self-absorbed, self-involution => Self-involution,