as in selfness
excessive interest in oneself
the only reason for constantly ignoring everyone else's problems is selfishness
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Recent Examples of selfishness
Inherently underneath all of it, is fear and selfishness.
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Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 12 Aug. 2024
If Nietzsche was right, altruism comes from selfishness, humility from arrogance, love from hate.
—Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
His selfishness ran counterintuitive to the label’s ethos, which Faith Evans described as being familial.
—Jayson Rodriguez, Variety, 18 Nov. 2024
But that would just be a less destructive version of Bezos’s selfishness.
—Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
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Noun
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Soapstone tops the bespoke vanity with hardware from Rejuvenation.—
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Daniel Petroni Photography The primary suite bathroom features twin vanities, side-by-side showers encased in a glass cube and a black bathtub under a crystal chandelier at its center.—
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Trump’s slogans—America First and Make America Great Again—embody the essence of populism, namely using ideology to advance a political program that is morally unconstrained and driven by collective egoism.—
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Psychological egoism is at play here, too, with Jimmy’s extreme emotional investment in getting Grace help.—
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After surviving the Holocaust, a Hungarian Jewish architect (Adrien Brody) comes to the USA to build a life for his family while weathering his own considerable ego and vices.—
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But managing egos and personalities is part of the job along with writing lineups and making pitching changes.—
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“Selfishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/selfishness. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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