selfishness

English

Etymology

selfish +‎ -ness

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛlfɪʃnəs/
• Hyphenation: self‧ish‧ness

Noun

selfishness (countable and uncountable, plural selfishnesses)

1. the quality of being selfish; the condition of putting one's own interests before those of others.

Antonyms

• selflessness

Translations

quality of being selfish

• Bengali: স্বার্থপরতা (śarthoprota)
• Catalan: egoisme (ca) m
• Czech: sobeckost f
• Esperanto: memcentreco, memismo, egoismo (eo)
• Finnish: itsekkyys (fi)
• French: égoïsme (fr) f
• German: Egoismus (de) m, Selbstsucht (de) f
• Italian: egoismo (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

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• Lithuanian: savanaudiškumas m
• Maori: kaipuku
• Polish: egoizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: egoísmo (pt)
• Russian: эгои́зм (ru) m (egoízm), себялю́бие (ru) n (sebjaljúbije)
• Spanish: egoísmo (es) m
• Turkish: bencillik (tr)