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Definition of Selfness
1. n. Selfishness.
Definition of Selfness
1. Noun. The quality or state of being oneself. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Selfness
1. selfhood [n -ES] - See also: selfhood
Medical Definition of Selfness
1. 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. "Selfishness,- a vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love." (Sir J. Mackintosh) Synonym: See Self-love. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Selfness
Literary usage of Selfness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Methods of Obtaining Success by Julia Seton (1914)
"EIGHTH SUCCESS METHOD selfness • WHEN one has arrived at the eighth fundamental,
he is beginning to have an intelligent idea of just what life requires of ..."
2. Epistemology; Or, The Theory of Knowledge: An Introduction to General by Peter Coffey (1917)
"So, too, some data of our conscious cognition are marked by a peculiar feature
which intellect interprets as internality or selfness, and others by an ..."
3. The Philosophy of Religion on the Basis of Its History by Otto Pfleiderer (1887)
"Now God's essence is selfness and wholeness, and therefore these highest ...
Mind answers to the side of the selfness of God, for every mind lives ..."
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