Meanings
- obsoleteuncountableSelfishness; egoism.
This Peece, or Schisme of Suicisme, and Selfishnesse, hath spawned most of the Heresies and Schismes, that are abroad in the World.
1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the EnglishSynonyms: egocentricity, me-firstism, self-centeredness, egoism, egomism, egocentricity, hoggery, interestedness
- obsoleteuncountableSuicide.
Synonyms: autohomicide, self-murder, autohomicide, self-blood, self-deletion, self-killing, self-murder, self-slaughter
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSelfishness; egoism.
nounSuicide.
Origin
From Latin suus (“one's own”) + -ism.
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