See selfishness on Wiktionary
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "quality of being selfish",
"word": "bencillik"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "quality of being selfish",
"word": "egoistlik"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "quality of being selfish",
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"word": "hodbinlik"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "quality of being selfish",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "hunanoldeb"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "egoizm",
"sense": "quality of being selfish",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "עגאָיִזם"
}
],
"word": "selfishness"
}
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