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Look up: Selfishness

  1. selfishness
    [n] - stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Selfishness
    Self'ish·ness noun 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...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/59

  3. selfishness
    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 utte...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  4. selfishness
    noun stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  5. Selfishness
    • (n.) 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.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  6. Selfishness
    `Selfishness` denotes an excessive or exclusive concern with oneself, and as such it exceeds mere self interest or self concern. Insofar as a decision maker knowingly burdens or harms others for personal gain, the decision is selfish. In contrast, self-interest is more general. Self-interest is mere...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfishness

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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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