as in selfness
excessive interest in oneself
the only reason for constantly ignoring everyone else's problems is selfishness
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Recent Examples of selfishness
Sometimes, like Jimmy, parents fail, and choose our own selfishness over our children.
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Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 27 Feb. 2025
In seven preceding episodes, Season 3 zoomed in on the insecurities, selfishness, and devious choices of a wide-ranging ensemble cast.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2025
The level of cartoonish selfishness and narcissism these late-capitalistic nightmares are granted here, however, starts to tip into a level that pitches everything into omnishambles territory.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2025
The film’s underlying suggestion that spies are just as susceptible to selfishness, prone to mistakes, and likely to lie as anyone lines up nicely with some of the revelations brought to light during the George W. Bush years, and little that’s happened since has made the movie seem less insightful.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
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Noun
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As its name implies, the Emotional Support lip balm ($24), is anything but a vanity project.—
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According to nutritionist Payal Kothari, author of The Gut, the rise of the high-protein diet has been driven by a mix of vanity and virality.—
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Trump’s slogans—America First and Make America Great Again—embody the essence of populism, namely using ideology to advance a political program that is morally unconstrained and driven by collective egoism.—
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Psychological egoism is at play here, too, with Jimmy’s extreme emotional investment in getting Grace help.—
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My coat and my ego were a bit tarnished as my husband rushed to help me up.—
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Also, any shred of ego one has left after a lifetime of motherhood and being a caregiver/support person will get completely zeroed out while milling around a bunch of athletes.—
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“Selfishness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/selfishness. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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