selfishness

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• /ˈsɛl.fɪʃ.nəs/
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• CMU ARPABET: S EH1 L F IH0 SH N AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree English selfish Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English selfishness From selfish + -ness.

43 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: أَنَانِيَّة (ʔanāniyya) — quality of being selfish
• Bengali: স্বার্থপরতা (śarthoprota) — quality of being selfish
• Bulgarian: себичност (sebičnost) — quality of being selfish
• Catalan: egoisme — quality of being selfish
• Czech: sobeckost — quality of being selfish
• Dutch: zelfheid — quality of being selfish
• Dutch: eigenheid — quality of being selfish
• Esperanto: memcentreco — quality of being selfish
• Esperanto: memismo — quality of being selfish
• Esperanto: egoismo — quality of being selfish
• Finnish: itsekeskeisyys — quality of being selfish
• Finnish: itsekkyys — quality of being selfish
• French: égocentrisme — quality of being selfish
• French: égoïsme — quality of being selfish
• German: Egoismus — quality of being selfish
• German: Selbstsucht — quality of being selfish
• Hebrew: אנוכיות — quality of being selfish
• Ido: egoismo — quality of being selfish
• Interlingua: egoismo — quality of being selfish
• Irish: leithleachas — quality of being selfish
• Italian: egoismo — quality of being selfish
• Korean: 이기심 (igisim) — quality of being selfish
• Central Kurdish: خۆپەسەندی (xopesendî) — quality of being selfish
• Ladino: egoismo — quality of being selfish
• Lithuanian: savanaudiškumas — quality of being selfish
• Macedonian: себичност (sebičnost) — quality of being selfish
• Malayalam: സ്വാർത്ഥത (svāṟtthata) — quality of being selfish
• Māori: kaipuku — quality of being selfish
• Polish: egoizm — quality of being selfish
• Polish: samolubność — quality of being selfish
• Polish: samolubstwo — quality of being selfish
• Portuguese: egoísmo — quality of being selfish
• Romanian: egoism — quality of being selfish
• Russian: эгои́зм (egoízm) — quality of being selfish
• Russian: себялю́бие (sebjaljúbije) — quality of being selfish
• Spanish: egoísmo — quality of being selfish
• Tamil: தன்னலம் (taṉṉalam) — quality of being selfish
• Tamil: சுயநலம் (cuyanalam) — quality of being selfish
• Turkish: bencillik — quality of being selfish
• Turkish: egoistlik — quality of being selfish
• Turkish: hodbinlik — quality of being selfish
• Welsh: hunanoldeb — quality of being selfish
• Yiddish: עגאָיִזם (egoizm) — quality of being selfish