Category:Selfishness

Self"ish*ness, n.

Defn: 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.