Synonyms for selfishness
self·ish·ness

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1. selfishness

   Synonyms:
   barbarity, brutality, churlishness, greediness, harshness, ill-will, illiberality, inhumanity, malevolence, malignity, niggardliness, self-seeking, stinginess, unkindness

   Antonyms:
   almsgiving, beneficence, benevolence, benignity, bounty, charity, generosity, good-will, humanity, kind-heartedness, kindliness, kindness, liberality, munificence, philanthropy, sympathy, unselfishness

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1. selfishnessnoun

   stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others

   Antonyms:
   unselfishness

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1. • Stinginess

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1. selfishnessnoun

   Synonyms:
   undue love of self, self-interest, private interest, illiberality, meanness

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1. List of paraphrases for "selfishness":

   egoism, egotism, self-interest, self-indulgence, egocentricity, self-centred, selfish

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1. John Randolph:

   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.

2. Kris Bryant:

   I can honestly say I’ve never really been on a team where we had a bullpen like this, there’s zero selfishness here.

3. Development Initiative -RRB- Yunus:

   The real human being is a mixture of both selfishness and selflessness, modern-day economists have thrown away the selfless.

4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

   All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

5. Charles Caleb Colton:

   Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. when alive, would not have contributed.