Self-servingness
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The state of someone or something being self-serving. uncountable
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From self-serving + -ness. First use appears c. 1915. See cite below.
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