Selfishness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           Selfishness, -- a vice utterly at variance with the
           happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such,
           condemned by self-love.                  --Sir J.
                                                    Mackintosh.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: See {Self-love}.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  selfishness
       n : stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and
           a disregard of others [ant: {unselfishness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "selfishness":
     autotheism, ego, egocentricity, egocentrism, egoism,
     egoisticalness, egotism, egotisticalness, individualism, self,
     self-absorption, self-centeredness, self-centerment, self-interest,
     self-regard, self-seeking, self-worship, selfhood, selfism,
     selfness