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Self-centeredness

noun
1.
Concern for your own interests and welfare.  Synonyms: egocentrism, egoism, self-concern, self-interest.  Antonym: altruism.





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... was such a being, hardly deserves to be called man. Social qualities he had very slight, if at all; his altruistic actions and emotions were of the lowest and feeblest type. His life was so self-centered—we may not call it selfish, for he was not conscious of his self-centeredness—that he was quite sufficient to himself except for short periods of time. It was a matter of relative indifference to him whether his kinsmen survived or perished. His life was in only the slightest degree involved in ...
— Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic • Sidney L. Gulick
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