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# selfishness

«selfishness» in Mova's school dictionary: **caring only about yourself and not about other people's…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (selfishness)

### meaning for a pupil

Selfishness is caring only about yourself and not about other people's needs or wishes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/selfishness/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a fault in the tales, shown by a greedy or unkind character who keeps everything for himself

### examples

- Selfishness makes friends go away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/selfishness/#x1)
- She refused to share, and her selfishness spoiled the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/selfishness/#x2)
- True friends have no selfishness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/selfishness/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «selfishness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/selfishness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.