Selfishness

Quick meaning: Selfishness is a noun meaning The quality of being selfish, the condition of putting one's own interests before those of others.

Meaning

The quality of being selfish, the condition of putting one's own interests before those of others.

Example Sentences

And he knows that Patrick can afford to complain about his mother’s minor selfishness but he cannot afford to engage with the idea of his own father at all.

This common faith or set of aspirations, he added, could also help Americans transcend their selfishnesses and follies and promote a world civil religion given to justice and hope.

Word Forms

• selfishnesses

Synonyms for selfishness

Depending on context, synonyms include egoism, egomism, egocentricity, hoggery, interestedness, me-firstism.

Antonyms for selfishness

Common opposites include selflessness, self-abnegation, unselfishness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include egoism, self-interest, self-centred, egocentricity, egotism, self-indulgence.

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