- Egocentricity - Egotism - Greed - Lack of generosity - Personal greed - Self-centredness - The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive
regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or
self-preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the
advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding
those of others.
- The state or quality of being irritable; quick
excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper. - A natural susceptibility, characteristic of all
living organisms, tissues, and cells, to the influence of certain
stimuli, response being manifested in a variety of ways, -- as that
quality in plants by which they exhibit motion under suitable
stimulation; esp., the property which living muscle processes, of
responding either to a direct stimulus of its substance, or to the
stimulating influence of its nerve fibers, the response being indicated
by a change of form, or contraction; contractility. - A condition of morbid excitability of an organ or
part of the body; undue susceptibility to the influence of stimuli. See
Irritation, n., 3.