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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?
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.”
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.
There is no Arnold on the ballot this time -- there's nobody with that broad love that Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger had when Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger went in, i think the 2003 election is their excuse, but it's mostly motivated out of selfishness to keep Gavin Newsom.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel:
Putting aside vanities and selfishness, practicing honesty, industriousness and decency, we will also be contributing to GDP.
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.
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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