self-concern

Noun

Meaning

Concern for one's self.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Alternative names

self concern

Synonyms

egoism self-interest egocentrism self-centeredness meanness ego greed selfishness conceit egotism narrowness narcissism self-seeking self-regard selfness
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Antonyms

neutrality detachment generosity fairness objectivity impartiality
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Hypernyms

trait

Examples

Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self. Arnold J. Toynbee

They would fail. We would always fail. We weren't built to do anything but fail. We had the wrong kind of motives and we couldn't change them. We had a built-in short-sightedness and an inherent selfishness and a self-concern that made it impossible to step out of the little human rut we traveled. Clifford D. Simak

Those caught in the cycle of self-concern suffer helplessly, while the compassionate are more free and, implicitly, more happy. Robert Thurman

Close letter words and terms

self-conceitedly self-concept self-conception self-condemnation self-condemnatory self-condemned