selfish

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making.

2. 2

   Having excessive or exclusive regard and concern for one's own well-being, profit or…

   Having excessive or exclusive regard and concern for one's own well-being, profit or pleasure, with little or no consideration for others.

   • Take warning by my fate, and shun that flowery and bewitching path; for in its labyrinths the good, the gentle, the kind-hearted, and the benevolent, are too often lost; while the sordid and the selfish scarcely so much as run a hazard.
3. 3

   Of video game characters

   Of video game characters: relying on their own actions and capabilities to be effective in the game, rather than on other characters.

   • With that said, there is a perk to Xiao being a selfish DPS. He plays like Razor where he needs to be out in the field more than 90 percent of the time. Compared to Diluc, Xiao is more independent when it comes to dealing damage.
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   1. 4

      Related to or equivalent to a selfish gene

      Related to or equivalent to a selfish gene; best understood as existing to preserve and replicate itself in competition with other entities at the same level of existence, rather than at the level of the individual or population containing it.

      • Through this hypothesized mechanism, a selfish virus would reduce the probability that other co-infecting genotypes contribute the expected share of their genes to the progeny.
      • The "selfish meme" concept does not, of course, ascribe any consciousness or motivation to the meme; it simply means we can understand better by looking at evolution from the meme's point of view.

The neighborhood

• synonymegocentric
• synonymegoistical
• synonymevery man for himself
• synonymidiocentric
• synonymindividualistic
• synonyminterested
• synonymporkish
• synonymreptilian
• synonymselfish
• synonymselflike
• synonymselfsome
• synonymself-absorbed
• antonymself-abnegatory
• neighborself-serving
• neighborselfishness
• neighboregotistical
• neighboregotistic
• neighborfull of oneself
• neighborexcessive
• neighborimmoral
• neighborstingy
• neighborbrattish
• neighborbratty
• neighborspoiled
• neighborspoiled rotten