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selfishness
(encz) | selfishness,sobectví n: |
Selfishness
(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] |
selfishness
(wn) | selfishness
n 1: stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare
and a disregard of others [ant: unselfishness] |
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selfishness
(encz) | selfishness,sobectví n: |
unselfishness
(encz) | unselfishness,nesobeckost n: Zdeněk Brožunselfishness,obětavost n: Zdeněk Brož |
selfishness
(wn) | selfishness
n 1: stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare
and a disregard of others [ant: unselfishness] |
unselfishness
(wn) | unselfishness
n 1: the quality of not putting yourself first but being willing
to give your time or money or effort etc. for others;
"rural people show more devotion and unselfishness than do
their urban cousins" [ant: selfishness]
2: acting generously [syn: generosity, unselfishness] |
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