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say it: SEL-fish-nuhs
selfishness is a noun meaning "stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others". It is pronounced /ˈsɛlfɪʃnəs/ — SEL-fish-nuhs. It carries one recorded sense.
stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for selfishness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.