Found 2 items, similar to Selfishness.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: selfishness
selfishness
n : stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and
a disregard of others [ant:
unselfishness]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Selfishness
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]