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Meaning selfishness meaning

What does selfishness mean?

selfishness

— noun stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others

Synonyms selfishness synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as selfishness?

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egoism egotism self-centeredness greed self-interest selfinterest avarice vanity egocentricity voracity stinginess desire selfish person self-seeking self-love self-indulgence profit niggardliness greediness exploitation envy conceit willfulness willful wilfulness wilful voraciousness vainglory utilization unfair undutifulness sense of ownership selfish motive selfish self-regard self-preservation self-defense self-concern self-conceit self-centredness self seeking self love rapacity rapaciousness piggishness personal opinion personal feelings partial parsimony one’s own way

Topics selfishness topics

What do people use selfishness to talk about?

Social behavior Behavior Do good to Altruistic, selfless

Selfish

What words refer to the quality of being selfish?

selfishness

Examples selfishness examples

How do I use selfishness in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Your selfishness will lose you your friends.

I'm annoyed at his selfishness.

His selfishness was such that nobody liked him.

Nothing vexed her more than his selfishness.

He can't endure my selfishness any more.

She didn't tolerate his selfishness.

His selfishness makes me nervous.

I'm annoyed at your selfishness.

I am often irritated by her selfishness.

Movie subtitles

This godless world, devoid of justice and compassion, consisting only of selfishness, cruelty and hatred.

Your selfishness, your hypocrisy, your egotism.

Well, it's pure selfishness on my part.

Yea, Lord. dead in the selfishness of her spirit. and the man followed her.

Such selfishness will not be tolerated!

We've been victims of his selfishness for too long.

Your selfishness.

It's your selfishness.

My selfishness?

Your selfishness, your greed, your lust for life, your unquenchable desires.

But your selfishness is all I've got.

Callousness, selfishness, ruthlessness.

Of you. your selfishness. your miserable ideals.

My selfishness ruined her life.

That is, I mind, of course, but it's such good discipline. for my selfishness about you.

Tell me she's not a victim of his selfishness.

All that's bad is bred by selfishness.

Sometimes selfishness can get to be a cause, an organized force. Even a government. Then it's called fascism.

Just selfishness on my part.

Selfishness.

Of your selfishness, of the miserable bleakness of your ideals.

Your rarefied selfishness is intolerable.

My selfishness, my obstinacy, my stupidity in not listening to your advice.

My stubbornness, my obstinacy, my selfishness.

It's pure selfishness.

No more selfishness.

Greed.. willful inhuman selfishness.

Earth where the misery of some mixes with the selfishness of others and the meanness of them all.

You're disposing of my life with utter selfishness, and now you add vulgarity to cruelty.

Your selfishness knows no bounds.

With his narrow-minded selfishness!

That I keep your dog to satisfy your selfishness?

To achieve wealth. to satisfy my selfishness. I took a few shortcuts.

It was selfishness, or indifference.

Oh, of selfishness, Captain.

Of pure selfishness.

We are December 17th, so 5 days ago, and don't ask why I waited so long. I spoke just now of my selfishness.

Your rarified selfishness is intolerable.

What a selfishness!

News and current affairs

Among the more amusing results that have come out of experimental economics are those concerning altruism and selfishness.

Chinese cynicism and spontaneous selfishness, however, is now tempered by what they perceive as growing recognition of their unique status.

Ours is a civilization that accepts selfishness towards one's own family and group; that tolerates, with few exceptions, autonomy in moral matters; and that considers blasphemy, criticism of authority, and even civil disobedience fundamental freedoms.

In this area, too, Europe has taken the lead, especially concerning global warming, showing that petty selfishness can be put aside to achieve a common good.

For any program based on selfishness and injustice must generate strong forces of social dissolution and instability.

Since then, we have turned away from advocacy of selfishness, but we have not recovered an independent moral language.

Meanwhile, Europe, in a display of united selfishness, has scuttled a plan to relocate a mere 40,000 asylum-seekers from their cities of refuge in Italy and Greece.

With this in mind, EU leaders should be working to encourage and harness the generosity of some, while containing and resisting the selfishness and xenophobia of others.

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