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Selfishness
Selfishness is being concerned excessively or exclusively for oneself or one's own advantage, pleasure, or welfare, regardless of others.[1][2]
Selfishness is the opposite of altruism or selflessness, and has also been contrasted (as by C. S. Lewis) with self-centeredness.[3]
- ^ "Selfish" Archived 2014-10-19 at the Wayback Machine, Merriam-Webster Dictionary, accessed on 23 August 2014
- ^ Selfishness – meaning, reference.com, accessed on 23 April 2012
- ^ C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy (1988) pp. 116–17
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