Noun:

अपने लाभ की इच्छा, ख़ुदग़रज़ी, स्वार्थपरता,

selfishness's Usage Examples:

It is perhaps easy to understand how, in the crisis of 1640, when the ethico-political system of Hobbes first took written shape, a peace-loving philosopher should regard the claims of individual conscience as essentially anarchical, and dangerous to social well-being; but however strong might be men's yearning for order, a view of social duty, in which the only fixed positions were selfishness everywhere and unlimited power somewhere, could not but appear offensively paradoxical.

His ambition might be interpreted as selfishness, but certainly showed no coldness of heart.

Some had heard of his great learning, and others had heard of his selfishness and cruelty.

It protests against contemporary industrial selfishness, and against the organization of industry on the Darwinian principle of struggle for existence.

At a later stage in his reign he was guilty of an act of even grosser selfishness; for after the War of the Polish Succession, in which he supported the claims of Augustus III.,elector of Saxony,he yielded Lorraine to Stanislaus Leszczynski, whose claims had been defended by France, and through whom France ultimately secured this beautiful German province.

Suicide, and all other forms of selfishness, are highly reprehensible.

Having witnessed the unjust exactions of a democracy at Athens, the dwindling population of an oligarchy at Sparta, and the oppressive selfishness of new tyrannies throughout the Greek world, he condemned the actual constitutions of the Greek states as deviations (7rapec- (3do as) directed merely to the good of the government; and he contemplated a right constitution (607) 7roAtTeia), which might be either a commonwealth, an aristocracy or a monarchy, directed to the general good; but he preferred the monarchy of one man, pre-eminent in virtue above the rest, as the best of all governments (Nicomachean Ethics, viii.

It is not easy to see how Washington survived the year 1775; the colonial poverty, the exasperating annoyances, the outspoken criticism of those who demanded active operations, the personal and party dissensions in Congress, the selfishness or stupidity which cropped out again and again among some of the most patriotic of his coadjutors were enough to have broken down most men.

But Miranda's desire - that all the South American colonies should form a federal republic - awoke the selfishness of provincial administrations, and the cause was believed to be hateful to heaven owing to a great earthquake on the 26th of March 1812.

The selfishness of the three directors threw away this golden opportunity.

Synonyms:

rapaciousness, opportunism, stinginess, self-interest, voraciousness, expedience, self-seeking, greediness,

Antonyms:

inexpedience, disadvantage, unselfish, generosity, unselfishness,