See Also: Selfishness(medicine)

inextinguished (iou) and Selfishness (medicine)


inextinguished (iou)



inextinguished adjective. Now rare. M18.
[from IN-3 + EXTINGUISH + -ED1.]
Not extinguished; still burning.

Selfishness (medicine)


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 utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love." (Sir J. Mackintosh)

Synonym: See Self-love.

Source: Websters Dictionary