Sĕlf'ish-ness, n.

n. The quality 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.

Selfishness . . . a vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

Mackintosh.

Synonyms— See SELF-LOVE.