Self"ish*ness, n. 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.
Syn. -- See Self-love.