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Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.
Ezra Taft Benson

Meaning of "self-seeking" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SELF-SEEKING

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SELF-SEEKING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Self-Seeking can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SELF-SEEKING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of self-seeking in the English dictionary

The definition of self-seeking in the dictionary is the act or an instance of seeking one's own profit or interest, esp exclusively. Other definition of self-seeking is having or showing an exclusive preoccupation with one's own profit or interest.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SELF-SEEKING

self-sacrifice
self-sacrificing
self-sacrificingly
self-satisfaction
self-satisfied
self-sealing
self-seeded
self-seeker
self-service
self-serving
self-sown
self-standing
self-starter
self-steering
self-study
self-styled
self-sufficiency
self-sufficient
self-sufficiently
self-sufficing

WORDS THAT END LIKE SELF-SEEKING

attention-seeking
banking
booking
breaking
clicking
cooking
drinking
foreking
fucking
heat-seeking
in the making
king
Mafeking
making
networking
Peking
pleasure-seeking
profit-seeking
publicity-seeking
reeking

Synonyms and antonyms of self-seeking in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SELF-SEEKING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «self-seeking» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of self-seeking

Translation of «self-seeking» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SELF-SEEKING

Find out the translation of self-seeking to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of self-seeking from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «self-seeking» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

自私自利
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

egoísmo
570 millions of speakers

English

self-seeking
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्वार्थसेवी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

البحث عن الذات
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

своекорыстие
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

egoísmo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্বার্থচিন্তা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

égoïste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mencari diri sendiri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Selbstsucht
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

利己主義
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

이기주의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dhewe-dhewe
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ít kỷ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுய தேடுவது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्वत: ची शोधत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çıkarcı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ricerca di sé
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

samolubna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

своєкорисливість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

egoist
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ιδιοτελή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

selfsugtig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

självisk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

egoistisk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of self-seeking

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-SEEKING»

The term «self-seeking» is quite widely used and occupies the 53.187 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-SEEKING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about self-seeking

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QUOTES WITH «SELF-SEEKING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word self-seeking.
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Ezra Taft Benson
Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SELF-SEEKING»

Discover the use of self-seeking in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to self-seeking and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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An American Tragedy: Perils of the Self Seeking "success"
This book's premise is that a novel's ideas about the human drama are not necessarily the same as those its author consciously holds - meaning that a close reading of Theodore Dreiser's artistic portrayal of modern America in An American ...
Paul A. Orlov, 1998
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Seeking the Self: Individualism and Popular Culture in Japan
This book is about the self in contemporary Japan.
Satomi Ishikawa, 2007
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The Self in Social Psychology
We have those of bodily self-seeking, those of social self-seeking, and those of spiritual self-seeking. Bodily Self-seeking All the ordinary useful reflex actions and movements of alimentation and defence are acts of bodily self-preservation,  ...
Roy F. Baumeister, 1999
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ADV EXPERIMENTAL SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
What types of actors would be most likely to display self-seeking altruism? In what situations would self-seeking altruism be most likely to occur? Rewards in future states must obviously be higher, but how much higher? What influence does ...
Berkowitz, Roger, Leonard Berkowitz, Elaine Hatfield, 1976
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Psychology: The Briefer Course
We have those of bodily self-seeking, those of social self-seeking, and those of spiritual self-seekmg. Bodily Self-seeking.—All the ordinary useful reflex actions and movements of alimentation and defence are acts of bodily self-preservation.
William James, 2012
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Servant of God: Sayings of a Self-realised Sage Swami Ramdas
... joy lies in self- sacrifice and not in self-seeking. The more you expand yourself, the more you diffuse your individual sense and merge in the totality of all objects and things, the nearer you approach the root of immortal and self-existent bliss.
Swami Ramdas, Susunaga Weeraperuma, 1998
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The Desiring Self: Rooting Pastoral Counseling and Spiritual ...
...It is as if they went out to meet all the other elements of our experience.22 Having laid out the three basic constituents of the self's "me," James discusses feelings of the self (self-appreciation) and self- seeking. Self-appreciation includes both ...
Walter E. Conn, 1998
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Thoughts on the rule of conscientious subscription: on the ...
34 THE SELF-SEEKING TEMPER. that if the fear turn out to be true, your sense of the duty which devolves upon you, as young men, to stand up against popular errors, to unteach the multitude to use false voices, to be, in the best sense, ...
Frederick Denison Maurice, William George Ward, 1845
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Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion: Determinate Religion
self-seeking of the worshipers that intuits itself in them as power, and that seeks satisfaction in and from them (for a subjective interest). | Human self-seeking ((a) is inwardly determined, human 115 beings in their particularity being infinite ...
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Peter Crafts Hodgson, 1995
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The usage of the Church, in closing the morning service with ...
34 THE SELF-SEEKING TEMPER. that if the fear turn out to be true, your sense of the duty which devolves upon you, as young men, to stand up against popular errors, to unteach the multitude to use false voices, to be, in the best sense, ...
William James, 1845

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SELF-SEEKING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term self-seeking is used in the context of the following news items.
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Self-seeking governance
Self-seeking governance. File - Prime Minister Tammam Salam addresses the Arab-Chinese Businessmen Conference at the Phoenicia Hotel in Beirut, ... «The Daily Star, Jun 15»
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Residents warned against self-seeking politicians
“Governorship is not about propaganda and self-seeking politics. “It's about financial management and planning,” said Oparanya in what seemed to be an attack ... «The Standard Digital News, May 15»
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Illustration: Eric Lobbecke Source: Supplied
... a very costly and wasteful exercise. My advice to Bill would be to spend less time talking to self-seeking scientists and more time talking to rational economists. «The Australian, May 15»
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Church leaders self-seeking moneymongers — Mugabe
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has taken a dig on some fly-by-night Pentecostal church leaders describing them as self-seeking moneymongers who were not ... «NewsDay, Mar 15»
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Education and Humility
But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, ... «The Compass, Feb 15»
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Faith and Values: What's love got to do with it?
It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. «Allentown Morning Call, Feb 15»
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Polycarp Cardinal Pengo
Elaborating, he said overambitious and self-seeking leaders are the major factor behind the ever widening gap between the rich and poor “since greedy leaders ... «IPPmedia, Dec 14»
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PDP's religion is poverty — Osun Governor, Aregbesola
We must terminate the regime of self-seeking manipulators who currently parade corridors of power, accruing political profit by turning us against each other and ... «Premium Times, Nov 14»
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What's so complicated about 'love your enemies'?
Whereas the Bible says that love is patient and kind, that love is not self-seeking, and all that other inconvenient stuff — for many of us, enemy love ends up ... «Mennonite World Review, Jun 14»
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Is Open-Ended Chaos the Desired US-Israeli Aim in the Middle East?
First, that we are an empire, and that all empires are, without exception, brutally and programmatically self-seeking. Second, that one of the prime goals of every ... «CounterPunch, Jun 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Self-Seeking [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/self-seeking>. Apr 2024 ».
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