Synonyms:
egoism, egocentrism, self-interest, self-concern, self-centeredness
Meaning: concern for your own interests and welfare
Synonyms:
egoism
Meaning: (ethics) the theory that the pursuit of your own welfare in the basis of morality
Usage examples
These censored wishes which have attained to a distorted expression in the dream, are above all expressions of a boundless, reckless egoism.
As Trysdale grimly wrenched apart the seam of his last glove, the crowning instance of his fatuous and tardily mourned egoism came vividly back to him.
And because she loved him, because the thought of him, so hard to other women, so tender to herself, fascinated her reason and paralysed her will--flattering the egoism inherent even in the very good--because she was weak and he was irresistibly strong, she cut herself from him deliberately, open-eyed, and with one stroke.
I will not discuss the question of how you may estimate yourselves, but have you found so much good will among your superiors and rivals, so much chivalry among your enemies, so little envy in their company, that you feel yourselves in duty bound to enter a protest against the part played by the evil of egoism in human nature?