Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or state of being self-centered; selfishness.
- noun Individuality; selfhood.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Egotism; the usurpation of undue predominance by sentiments relating to one's self.
- noun Personality.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Selfishness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state, quality, or condition of
self . - noun
Egotism ; the usurpation of undue predominance by sentiments relating to one's self. - noun
Personality .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Understand that to put yourself first, what I refer to as selfness, is the ultimate act of service.
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That just might give you some insight into where your selfness vs. selflessness balance sits.
Blog Action Day: Is Climate Change / Global Warming Real? » E-Mail 2009
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That just might give you some insight into where your selfness vs. selflessness balance sits.
Blog Action Day: Is Climate Change / Global Warming Real? 2009
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And he exists to the potentiality of his selfness.
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Moreover, the evolution of human beings is just not the idea of human beings evolved as Machiavellian Primates who are physically positioned in the material world with the burning desires of worldly weal and woes, rather it is that humans are the most evolved in gradual progression from the world of thinking and feeling to a heightened world of spiritual dimension where selfishness is primordially sacrificed at the expense of selfness.
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As man learns to ask himself and doubt about the physical reality of his existence in metaphysical inversion or perversion, inversion of being to becoming one unique whole of selfness - as if man is born to be in perpetual quest of knowing himself vis-à-vis others around him.
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That detachment, so to say, is a firm step towards gaining his independence as a progenitor of human evolution of selfness.
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In another illustration of hard-fought (even, here, arguably hard-hearted) selfness, Terri Minsky describes having a demanding TV career that could put her in L.A. for months at a time, while her family remained in Manhattan.
Rhymes With Rich 2006
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One's selfness first doubts of his summary judgment of mere existence, hence he thinks by investing his soulful capital to appropriate the contingency of his existence in excess of the worldly weal and woes and as it exposes itself to the extent of its potentiality, he thinks like he exists.
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The answer is I am what I am because of my liberatory feelings of selfness and I know I have discovered my self and that is why I know what I am.
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