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Selfishness
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<p>Selfishness is being concerned excessively or exclusively for oneself or one's own advantage, pleasure, or welfare, regardless of others. Selfishness is the opposite of <i><a href="/facts/Altruism/ztvkVwW1">altruism</a></i> or selflessness, and has also been contrasted (as by <a href="/facts/C._S._Lewis/hELtVT9R">C. S. Lewis</a>) with <i><a href="/facts/Egocentrism/tn6vWmG6">self-centeredness</a></i>. </p>