Definition of Selfeshness
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.
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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- the quality of being selfish, the condition of habitually putting one's own interests before those of others
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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