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. Erica Jong:

   There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness -- her selfishness, in short -- is a reproach to the American way of life.

2. Janvier Chouteu-Chando:

   Even with all its positive attributes, capitalism in its imperialistic form is the most treacherous system mankind ever devised. It is driven by a selfishness that has an almost religious underlining to it.”

3. Jamela Dunbar:

   It is the truth. All men are partners. In a partnership with each other. As one people. We cannot change the past, present or future of this fact. We are born equal. And we will all die equal. The truth will prevail. Selfishness will not win. We stand together as one. With a force of many.”

4. Oscar Wilde:

   Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

5. Mammasse aissa:

   the world are made of Selfishness but the biggest problem is myself