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Selfishness vs Stingy - What's the difference?

selfishness | stingy |

As a noun selfishness

is the quality of being selfish, the condition of putting one's own interests before those of others.

As an adjective stingy is

stinging; able to sting.

selfishness

English

Noun

(wikipedia selfishness)
  • the quality of being selfish, the condition of putting one's own interests before those of others
  • Antonyms

    * selflessness

    stingy

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Stinging; able to sting.
  • Etymology 2

    Uncertain, possibly from stinge, a dialectal variation of .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
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  • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * stingily * stinginess