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

Derived terms

rational selfishness

Translations

quality of being selfish

Arabic: أَنَانِيَّة‎ f (ʔanāniyya)
Bengali: স্বার্থপরতা (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
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: خۆپەسەندی‎ (xopesendî)
Ladino:
Roman: egoismo
Lithuanian: savanaudiškumas m
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)
Yiddish: עגאָיִזם‎ m (egoizm)

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