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Definitions: Self-seeking |
Self-seekingAdjective1. Interested only in yourself. Noun1. Taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "self-seeking" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references) |
Synonyms: Self-seekingSynonyms: self-serving (adj), expedience (n), opportunism (n), self-interest (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Selfishness | Adjective: selfish; self-seeking, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-centered; wrapped up in self, wrapt up in self, centered in self; egotistic, egotistical; egoistical. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Self-seeking |
| English words defined with "self-seeking": competitive ♦ militant. (references) |
| "Self-seeking" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 80.95% of the time. "Self-seeking" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 80.95% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (singular) | 19.05% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "self-seeking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | egoist (egoist, egoistic, egotist, hoggish, self centered, selfish, self-seeker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حكم ذاتي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | себичен, кариеристичен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 自我追求. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | omanvoitonpyyntöinen, itsekäs (egoistic, selfish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | égoïste (selfish, selfish man, self-serving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ιδιοτέλεια (self interest, selfishness), ιδιοτελήσ (self-interested). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | önzõ (assertive, egocentric, egoist, egoistic, egotist, hoggish, self centered, self-interested, selfish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | memikirkan diri sendiri (egoistic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | egoista (egoist, selfish, selfish person), egoismo (egoism, selfishness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | さまざまな理"から (anguishedly, for various reasons, game-ending home run, mean, self-interested, selfish, sorrowfully). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | さもしい (mean, self-interested, selfish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elf-seekingsay egoísta (base, egoistic, egotism, egotistically, self centered, self centred, self-absorbed, selfish, self-seeker, small). (various references) interesat (assign, concerned, interested, interestedly, mercantile, mercenary, selfish), egoist (cavalier, egoist, egoistic, egoistical, mean, selfish, self-pleasing, self-seeker), egoism (egoism, self, selfishness), carierism (careerism), arivism (careerism). (various references) своекорыстный. (various references) koristoljubiv (greedy, self-interested, worldly-minded). (various references) egoísta (egoist, egoistic, self indulgent, self-interested, selfish), egoísmo (egoism, self, self interest, selfhood, selfishness, self-love). (various references) själviskhet (egoism, selfishness), självisk (egoistic, self indulgent, selfish), egoistisk (egoistic, egoistical, egotistic, egotistical, piggish, selfish), egoism (egoism, selfishness). (various references) çıkarcı (calculating, expedient, interested, mercenary, number one, politic, profiteer, self-seeker, sordid, utilitarian). (various references) корисливий (accumulative, appropriate, avaricious, gainful, interested, mammonish, mercenary, money-grubbing, moneymaking, self-interested, sordid), кар'"ризм. (various references) sự tự tư tự lợi, tự tư tự lợi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Self-seeking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: selfseeking. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-f-g-i-k-l-n-s-s" | |
-3 letters: elegises, feelings, kingless, likeness, sleekens, sleeking. | |
-4 letters: elegies, elegise, enisles, ensiles, enskies, feeless, feeling, felines, fessing, finesse, finless, fleeing, flenses, geneses, genesis, inkless, keeling, kineses, seeings, seeking, seeling, selfing, seniles, signees, singles, skeeing, sleeken. | |
-5 letters: egises, elfins, enisle, ensile, feeing, feigns, feline, filses, flense, flings, gelees, genies, gleeks, gneiss, ingles, inkles, kneels, knifes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 6C 66 2D 73 65 65 6B 69 6E 67 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101100 01100110 00101101 01110011 01100101 01100101 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e l f - s e e k i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006C 0066 002D 0073 0065 0065 006B 0069 006E 0067 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537178721585717177758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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