selfist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
noun
A proponent of selfism; One who believes in their right and their responsibility to look after their own needs and desires.
Example Sentences
- "To do this, you should have sympathy for all humanity, and this cannot be done as long as you are a selfish or even selfist person."
- "To be selfist, one must presume divergence of interest."
- "Separateness in selfist thought is transmogrified into a perverted freedom (or set of freedoms), themselves devoid of attendant responsibilities."
- "[T]he pretentious wiſdom, and the knowing cautions of men—reputed to be of high ſtanding in phyſiological ſcience, but whoſe philoſophy, as it is that of the materialiſt, ſo does it prompt them to palliate, or even to juſtify, the practices of licentious ſelfiſts."
- "We have in the priests and elders the selfist prosperous in his schemes, and untouched, unhurt. We have in Judas the selfist wounded and disappointed, beginning to " eat of the fruit of his own way, and to be filled with his own devices.""
- "Since a punctualist (or an episodic) believes that the self does not last for long, a puncualist who is also a selfist has pertty much the same problems as a reductionist in justifying future-oriented egoistic concern."