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Synonyms for selfishness
self·ish·ness
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
selfishness
Synonyms:
barbarity, brutality, churlishness, greediness, harshness, ill-will, illiberality, inhumanity, malevolence, malignity, niggardliness, self-seeking, stinginess, unkindnessAntonyms:
almsgiving, beneficence, benevolence, benignity, bounty, charity, generosity, good-will, humanity, kind-heartedness, kindliness, kindness, liberality, munificence, philanthropy, sympathy, unselfishness
Princeton's WordNet
selfishnessnoun
stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others
Antonyms:
unselfishness
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
selfishnessnoun
Synonyms:
undue love of self, self-interest, private interest, illiberality, meanness
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "selfishness":
egoism, egotism, self-interest, self-indulgence, egocentricity, self-centred, selfish
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#18281 | selfish | |
#27217 | brutality | |
#38769 | selfishness | |
#70255 | harshness | |
#74318 | inhumanity | |
#84063 | egoism | |
#96782 | egotism | |
#108868 | barbarity | |
#110925 | malevolence | |
#194788 | greediness | |
#197798 | malignity | |
#204820 | unkindness | |
#256159 | stinginess |
How to use selfishness in a sentence?
The duplicitous world has set enough examples of how self-love doesn’t portray selfishness rather selfishness portrays self-love.
I can honestly say I’ve never really been on a team where we had a bullpen like this, there’s zero selfishness here.
Today we see a form of selfishness. We see that people do not want to have children, or just one and no more. And many, many couples do not have children because they do not want to, or they have just one -- but they have two dogs, two cats... Yes, dogs and cats take the place of children, this denial of fatherhood or motherhood diminishes us, it takes away our humanity.
The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.
I like a cat because it does not disguise its selfishness with any flattering hypocrisies. Its attachment is not to yourself, but to your house. Let it but have food, and a warm lair among the embers, and it heeds not at whose expense. Then it has the spirit to resent aggression. You shall beat your dog, and he will fawn upon you; but a cat never forgives : it has no tender mercies, and it torments before it destroys its prey.
Translations for selfishness
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- স্বার্থপরতাBengali
- sobeckostCzech
- Egoismus, SelbstsuchtGerman
- memismo, memcentreco, egoismoEsperanto
- egoísmoSpanish
- itsekkyysFinnish
- égoïsmeFrench
- egoismoItalian
- אנוכיותHebrew
- خۆپهسهندیKurdish
- savanaudiškumasLithuanian
- kaipukuMāori
- egoizmPolish
- egoísmoPortuguese
- себялю́бие, эгои́зм, эгоизмRussian
- స్వార్ధంTelugu
- 自私Chinese
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