self-regarding

self-regarding

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English regarding
English self-regarding

    From self- + regarding.

    Adjective

    self-regarding

    1. considering oneself and one's own interests before others
      • 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age : A Romance, Fourth Estate, page 171:
        [...] all adults seemed to her subjects for laughter, so self-regarding, so pretentious.
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