What are the opposite words for unselfishness?
Unselfishness is a virtue that is greatly appreciated in our society. However, there are times when one might need to express ideas that are the opposite of unselfishness. The antonyms for unselfishness include selfishness, greed, egoism, self-centeredness, and self-interest. Selfishness refers to a person's tendency to think only about their own benefit and not for the welfare of others. Greed is the intense desire to accumulate wealth, power or status. Egoism refers to the focus on one's own needs and wants at the expense of others. Self-centeredness is the tendency to think only about oneself, ignoring others' needs. Self-interest is the motivation to act in a way that benefits oneself rather than others.
- attribute
- courtesy
- generosity
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dissipation
- extravagance,
- re-creation,
- self-gratification,
- wastage,
- Divertissement,
- free living,
- blow out,
- divertissements,
- wingdings,
- wingding,
- high living,
- blow outs,
- blow-out,
- blow-outs,
- dis integration,
- dis integrations,
- dis semination,
- dis seminations,
- dis solution,
- dis solutions,
- dis traction,
- dis tractions,
- dis-integration,
- dis-integrations,
- dis-semination,
- dis-seminations,
- dis-solution,
- dis-solutions,
- dis-traction,
- dis-tractions,
- free livings,
- free-living,
- free-livings,
- freeliving,
- freelivings,
- hell handbasket,
- hell in handbasket,
- high livings,
- high-living,
- high-livings,
- highliving,
- highlivings,
- life in the fast lane,
- life the fast lane,
- re creation,
- re creations,
- re-creations,
- self gratification,
- self gratifications,
- self-gratifications,
- selfgratification,
- selfgratifications,
- squanderings,
- to hell handbasket,
- to hell in handbasket,
- wastages.
- martyrdom
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debauchery
- gluttony,
- Gluttonies,
- Sybaritism,
- burning candle at both end,
- burning candle at end,
- burning candle both end,
- burning candle end,
- dolce vita,
- dolce vitae,
- ex cesses,
- fast living,
- fast livings,
- in continence,
- in temperance,
- in temperances,
- in-continence,
- in-continences,
- in-temperances,
- la dolce vita,
- la dolce vitae,
- life fast lane,
- life in fast lane,
- over indulgence,
- over indulgences,
- over-indulgence,
- sybaritisms.
- excess
- kindness
- self-indulgence
- immoral self-indulgence
- amusement, entertainment, occasionally to excess
- overindulgence in personal desires
- unselfishness
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Other relevant words
- barbarity,
- brutality,
- cheapness,
- closeness,
- conservation,
- conserving,
- economy,
- frugality,
- greediness,
- harshness,
- husbandry,
- illiberality,
- inhumanity,
- malevolence,
- malignity,
- meanness,
- miserliness,
- niggardliness,
- parsimony,
- penuriousness,
- saving,
- scraping,
- self-seeking,
- thrift,
- tightness,
- unkindness,
- Husbanding,
- Pinching,
- Skimping.
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
most approximately
- Antonyms:
- far, not close.
