Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Devotedness to self; selfishness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Concentration of one's interests on one's self; self-love; selfishness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The practice of
focusing concern and effort on the needs of theself . - noun An
ethical system prescribing such focus.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word selfism.
Examples
-
She liked to think that she was approaching other - selfism with the Lady Blue.
-
Others may see this selfism or selfishness as a type of spiritual sickness.
-
She liked to think that she was approaching other - selfism with the Lady Blue.
Unicorn Point Anthony, Piers 1989
-
It cannot be that the unmitigated and disgusting selfism of Louis Philippe, and his efforts to ally himself with every crowned head in Europe -- not for the glory of France, but for his own -- will much longer be overlooked or their perils masked.
Edmond Dantès Edmund Flagg
-
It begins with the selfism of the individual, its manifestations are named lust.
Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul Anna Bishop Scofield
-
It is speedily punished, inasmuch as this habit invites men to humor it, and, by treating the patient tenderly, to shut him up in a narrower selfism, and exclude him from the great world of God's cheerful fallible men and women.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various
-
In this opponent of selfism, this regard for the rights and happiness of others equally with our own, we find the link which binds together the two halves of the moral principle.
Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Charles Morris 1877
-
It is speedily punished, inasmuch as this habit invites men to humor it, and by treating the patient tenderly, to shut him up in a narrower selfism, and exclude him from the great world of God's cheerful fallible men and women.
-
There is pride in action, but no selfism in these figures.
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli Ossoli, Margaret F 1851
-
The personal authority of the aristocracy has decreased with the disappearance of Ranelagh and similar places of amusement, where rank was not exclusive, and luxury by the gratification it occasioned others seemed robbed of half its selfism.
Venetia Benjamin Disraeli 1842
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.