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selfishness1: concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself : seeking or concentrating on one's own advantage, pleasure, or well-being without regard for others2: arising from concern with one's own welfare or advantage in disregard of others <a selfish act>3: being an actively replicating repetitive sequence of nucleic acid that serves no known function <selfish DNA>
; also : being genetic material solely concerned with its own replication <selfish genes>
— self·ish·ly adverb
— self·ish·ness noun
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