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self-servingness

self-servingness noun: the state of someone or something being self-serving.

Noun

self-servingness (uncountable)

  1. The state of someone or something being self-serving.
    • Reducing it then to its proper level of a statement and no more, and annexing to it its self-appearing quality of self-servingness, and its incompetency to conclude one not served by it and a stranger to it, for aught that is shown, becomes clear, as we think.1915, Ohio. Circuit Court, Vinton Randall Shepard (editor), Ohio Appellate and Circuit Court Reports, volume 23, page 5
    • The fact is that it's impossible to write about India without confronting head-on the narrowness and self-servingness of some of our lingering colonial assumptions about the nature of Indian society.1982, Robert Bohm, Notes on India, page 3

Synonyms of self-servingness

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Origin of self-servingness

From self-serving + -ness. First use appears c. 1915. See cite below.

Questions about self-servingness

What does self-servingness mean?
Self-servingness means the state of someone or something being self-serving.
What part of speech is self-servingness?
Self-servingness is a noun.

Words near self-servingness in the dictionary

  1. self-seriousness
  2. self-serve
  3. self-service
  4. self-serving
  5. self-servingly
  6. self-servingness
  7. self-set
  8. self-sexing
  9. self-signed
  10. self-signing
  11. self-similar

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