Self-servingness

Quick meaning: Self-servingness is a noun meaning The state of someone or something being self-serving.

Meaning

The state of someone or something being self-serving.

Example Sentences

Rather, she'd be exposed to a mixture of bluster, scapegoating, rationalization, self-servingness, face-saving, self-delusion, self-pity, and outright lie.

The fact is that it's impossible to write about India without confronting head-on the narrowness and self-servingness of some of our lingering colonial assumptions about the nature of Indian society.

Goleman speculates about what evolutionary survival advantage the self-servingness and hence (implicitly and necessarily) self-deceptiveness of our beliefs might have, besides making life more fun and less scary.

Sometimes the work of internal affairs divisions is compromised by their own corruption and self-servingness, thus feeding the very cynicism that is destructive of a genuinely professional service: Who watches those who watch the watchers?

Synonyms for self-servingness

Depending on context, synonyms include self-centeredness, self-interestedness, self-obsession, egoism, egomism, egocentricity.

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