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self-seeking

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Adjective, Noun
 : 
self-seek=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

self-seekinga. 
     Seeking one's own interest or happiness; selfish.  Arbuthnot.  [1913 Webster]
self-seekingn. 
     The act or habit of seeking one's own interest or happiness; selfishness.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

self-seeking, adj. & n. seeking one's own welfare before that of others.

Derivative
self-seeker n.

THESAURUS

self-seeking

acquisitive, acquisitiveness, ambitious for self, autism, autistic, careerism, careerist, ego trip, egoistic, egomaniacal, egotism, egotistic, egotistical, grasping, graspingness, greed, greedy, individualism, individualistic, interest, narcissism, narcissistic, personal aims, personal ambition, personal desires, personalism, personalistic, possessive, possessiveness, privatism, privatistic, remote, remoteness, self-absorbed, self-absorption, self-admiration, self-admiring, self-advancement, self-advancing, self-besot, self-centered, self-centeredness, self-concerned, self-consideration, self-considerative, self-contained, self-containment, self-devoted, self-devotion, self-esteem, self-esteeming, self-indulgence, self-indulgent, self-interest, self-interested, self-interestedness, self-jealous, self-jealousy, self-occupation, self-occupied, self-pleasing, self-regard, self-serving, self-solicitude, self-sufficiency, self-sufficient, selfhood, selfish, selfishness, selfism

ROGET THESAURUS

self-seeking

Selfishness

N selfishness, self-love, self-indulgence, self-worship, self-interest, egotism, egoism, amour propre, nepotism, worldliness, world wisdom, illiberality, meanness, time-pleaser, time-server, tuft- hunter, fortune-hunter, jobber, worldling, egotist, egoist, monopolist, nepotist, dog in the manger, charity that begins at home, canis in praesepi, foes to nobleness, temporizer, trimmer, selfish, self-seeking, self-indulgent, self-interested, self- centered, wrapped up in self, wrapt up in self, centered in self, egotistic, egotistical, egoistical, illiberal, mean, ungenerous, narrow-minded, mercenary, venal, covetous, unspiritual, earthly, earthly-minded, mundane, worldly, worldly- minded, worldly-wise, timeserving, interested, alieni appetens sui profusus, ungenerously, to gain some private ends, from interested motives, apres nous le deluge.


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