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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.
Even if opportunities don't come to you because of the selfishness of others, don't give up on your ability.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel:
Putting aside vanities and selfishness, practicing honesty, industriousness and decency, we will also be contributing to GDP.
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
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.
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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