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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

self-regarding en · ADJ

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.

Meanings

  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: