\Self"ish*ness\, n.
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.
Syn: See {Self-love}.