selfishness

English

Etymology

selfish +‎ -ness

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsɛl.fɪʃ.nəs/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Hyphenation: self‧ish‧ness

Noun

selfishness (countable and uncountable, plural selfishnesses)

The quality of being selfish, the condition of putting one's own interests before those of others.

Antonyms

selflessness

Hyponyms

hedonism, Epicureanism, Cyrenaicism

Derived terms

rational selfishness

Translations

quality of being selfish

Arabic: أَنَانِيَّة f (ʔanāniyya)
Bengali: স্বার্থপরতা (bn) (śarthoprota)
Bulgarian: себичност (bg) f (sebičnost)
Catalan: egoisme (ca) m
Czech: sobeckost f
Dutch: zelfheid (nl), eigenheid (nl)
Esperanto: memcentreco, memismo, egoismo (eo)
Finnish: itsekeskeisyys (fi), itsekkyys (fi)
French: égocentrisme (fr) m, égoïsme (fr) m
German: Egoismus (de) m, Selbstsucht (de) f
Hebrew: אנוכיות
Ido: egoismo (io)
Interlingua: egoismo
Irish: leithleachas m
Italian: egoismo (it) m
Korean: 이기심(利己心) (igisim)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: خۆپەسەندی (xopesendî)
Ladino:
Roman: egoismo
Lithuanian: savanaudiškumas m
Macedonian: себичност f (sebičnost)
Malayalam: സ്വാർത്ഥത (svāṟtthata)
Maori: kaipuku
Polish: egoizm (pl) m, samolubność (pl) f, samolubstwo (pl) n
Portuguese: egoísmo (pt)
Romanian: egoism (ro) n
Russian: эгои́зм (ru) m (egoízm), себялю́бие (ru) n (sebjaljúbije)
Spanish: egoísmo (es) m
Turkish: bencillik (tr), egoistlik (tr), hodbinlik (tr) (archaic)
Welsh: hunanoldeb m
Yiddish: עגאָיִזם m (egoizm)

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