a. 1. Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc., in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others. [ 1913 Webster ]
They judge of things according to their own private appetites and selfish passions. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
In that throng of selfish hearts untrue. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. (Ethics) Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self. [ 1913 Webster ]
Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers. Fleming. [ 1913 Webster ]
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 ]
(adj) concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others; - Maria Weston Chapman, Ant.unselfish, Example: Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights
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