self-regarding

adjective

considering oneself and one's own interests before others

OriginEnglish regarding ← Middle English self- ← Old English self- →
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Meanings

adjective
  1. considering oneself and one's own interests before others

    [...] all adults seemed to her subjects for laughter, so self-regarding, so pretentious.

    2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age : A Romance, Fourth Estate, page 171

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*swé?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*selbʰ-
  3. Proto-Germanic*selbaz
  4. Old Englishself
  5. Old Englishself-
  6. Middle Englishself-
  7. Englishself-
  8. Englishregarding
  9. Englishself-regarding

From self- + regarding.

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APA

self-regarding. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-regarding

MLA

“self-regarding.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-regarding. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “self-regarding,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/self-regarding.

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