Selfishness

Self´ish`ness

The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self-preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding those of others.

Selfishness, - a vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

- Sir J. Mackintosh.

Noun

selfishness - stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others

Antonyms:

unselfishness - the quality of not putting yourself first but being willing to give your time or money or effort etc. for others; "rural people show more devotion and unselfishness than do their urban cousins"

autotheism, ego, egocentricity, egocentrism, egoism, egoisticalness, egotism, egotisticalness, individualism, self, self-absorption, self-centeredness, self-centerment, self-interest, self-regard, self-seeking, self-worship, selfhood, selfism, selfness