a. 1. Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc., in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others. [ 1913 Webster ]

They judge of things according to their own private appetites and selfish passions. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

In that throng of selfish hearts untrue. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Ethics) Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers. Fleming. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Selfishness, -- a vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love. Sir J. Mackintosh. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Self-love. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Concentration of one's interests on one's self; self-love; selfishness. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A selfish person. [ R. ] I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]