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Selfishness
Webster's Dictionary
(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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Selfishness'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/selfishness.html. 1828.