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selfishness

N ความเห็นแก่ตัว  ความเห็นแก่ได้  การ คำนึงถึง แต่ ประโยชน์ ส่วน ตน  self-regard parsimony vanity greed kwam-hen-kea-tua

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SELFISHNESS

SELFISHNESS Self "ish *ness, n.

 

Defn: The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self- preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding those of others. Selfishness, - a vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love. Sir J. Mackintosh.

 

Syn. -- See Self-love.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

selfishness

self ish ness |ˈselfiSHnis | noun the quality or condition of being selfish: an act of pure selfishness.

 

Oxford Dictionary

selfishness

self ¦ish |ness |ˈsɛlfɪʃnɪs | noun [ mass noun ] the quality or state of being selfish; lack of consideration for other people: an act of pure selfishness.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

selfishness

selfishness noun selfishness is one of the biggest problems in marriages: egocentrism, egotism, egomania, introversion, self-seeking, self-serving, self-obsession, self-absorption, self-regard, self-interest, self-love; lack of consideration, inconsiderateness, thoughtlessness, unthinkingness, heedlessness, regardlessness, insensitivity, insensitiveness, tactlessness, uncharitableness, unkindness; meanness, miserliness, greed, acquisitiveness, opportunism; informal looking after number one. ANTONYMS unselfishness, altruism; generosity.