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porkishness en · NOUN

Etymology

From porkish + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being porkish.
    • Peter Bowbrick comments that she might have been responding to the porkishness of the word 'hog'. 2003, Morwenna Griffiths, Feminisms and the Self: The Web of Identity, →ISBN:
    • Sanity appeals and argues; our rulers persevere in their customary porkishness, while we acquiesce and obey. 1921, Aldous Huxley, chapter 22, in Crome Yellow, London: Chatto & Windus:
    • But it did have an essential porkishness that was hard to resist. 2010, Food Arts - Volume 23, page 18:

Synonyms

self-centeredness · selfhood · self-interestedness · suicism · egocentricity · porkishness · egomism · hoggery · selfishness · piggishness · self-absorption · self-servingness · philauty · me-firstism · egoism · hoggery · interestedness · solipsism · self-obsession