Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being interested, or of having an interest in a question or an event; hence, regard for one's own private views or profit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being interested; selfishness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
interested , or having aninterest ;selfishness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being interested
Etymologies
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Examples
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The naked self-interestedness of his switch from the Republican Party to the Democratic last year has been laid bare by President Obama's nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court.
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Obama criticized the "reckless speculation and deceptive practices and short-sightedness and self-interestedness from a few."
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Obama criticized the "reckless speculation and deceptive practices and short-sightedness and self-interestedness from a few."
Les Leopold: Stop Whining: Wall Street's Record Profits, Pay, Dow 10,000 Are Great News 2009
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Obama criticized the "reckless speculation and deceptive practices and short-sightedness and self-interestedness from a few."
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Obama criticized the "reckless speculation and deceptive practices and short-sightedness and self-interestedness from a few."
Les Leopold: Please President Obama: Stop Wall Street's Death Bonds 2009
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Obama criticized the "reckless speculation and deceptive practices and short-sightedness and self-interestedness from a few."
Les Leopold: Why White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs is Dead Wrong about Wall Street Pay 2009
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Obama criticized the "reckless speculation and deceptive practices and short-sightedness and self-interestedness from a few."
Arianna Huffington: Why Obama Won't Be Able to Reform Wall Street 2009
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*If* the preconditions of their theories (such as instrumental rationality and self-interestedness), which economists wrongly treat as "laws," were to hold true in a given time and place, wouldn't it be nice to have constitutional rules in place that (somehow) barred minimum-wage laws in that time and place?
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The anomaly, then—as Weber recognized—is the self-interestedness of the economy, not the anti-selfishness of the other spheres of society.
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Any familiarity with the actual run of politicians, voters (who tend to vote sociotropically, not selfishly), legislative aides, judges, and bureaucrats would confirm that self-interestedness is a minor problem, and that corruption (in a First-World country where norms of public service have taken root) is rare.
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