Etymology

selfism

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Today it means: The practice of focusing concern and effort on the needs of the self. Full definition →

English self ← Middle English self ← Old English self
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*swé?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*selbʰ-
  3. Proto-Germanic*selbaz
  4. Old Englishself
  5. Middle Englishself
  6. Englishself
  7. English todayselfism

From self + -ism.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.