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单词 selfishness
释义 selfishness|ˈsɛlfɪʃnɪs|
Also 7 selvish-.
[f. selfish + -ness.]
The condition or quality of being selfish; selfish disposition or behaviour; regard for one's own interest or happiness to the disregard of the well-being of others.
1643W. Greenhill Axe at Root A iij b, It's domesticknes of spirit, selvishnesse, which is the great let to Armies, Religions, and Kingdomes good.1645T. Hill Olive Branch (1648) 26 As long as ever you are full of Envy..or full of Selfishness, it argues you want love.1709Shaftesbury Charac. (1711) I. 115 The Opposite of Sociableness is Selfishness.1790Burke Fr. Rev. 333 A tax by which luxury, avarice, and selfishness were screened, and the load thrown upon productive capital.1839James Louis XIV, I. 406 Passion, vanity, interest, and all the other species of selfishness.
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