Stinginess resulting from a concern for your own welfare and a disregard of others.

Roget 817a: covetousness, ravenousness etc. adj.; venality, avidity, cupidity; acquisitiveness (acquisition) 775; desire etc. 865.    [greed for money or material things] greed, greediness, avarice, avidity, rapacity, extortion.    selfishness etc. 943; auri sacra fames [Lat.].    grasping, craving, canine appetite, rapacity.    ... show more

Roget 880: vanity; conceit, conceitedness; self-conceit, self-complacency, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-esteem, self-love, self-approbation, self-praise, self-glorification, self-laudation, self-gratulation^†, self-applause, self-admiration; amour propre [Fr.]; selfishness etc. 943.    airs, affected manner, pretensions, mannerism; egotism; priggism^†, priggishness; coxcombry, gaudery^†, vainglory, elation; pride etc. 878; ostentation etc. 882; assurance etc. 885.    vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.]; cheval de bataille [Fr.].    coxcomb etc. 854; Sir Oracle etc. 887.    ... show more

Roget 943: selfishness etc. adj.; self-love, self-indulgence, self-worship, self-interest; egotism, egoism; amour propre [Fr.], etc. (vanity) 880; nepotism.    worldliness etc. adj.; world wisdom.    illiberality; meanness etc. adj.. time-pleaser, time-server; tuft-hunter, fortune-hunter; jobber, worldling; egotist, egoist, monopolist, nepotist; dog in the manger, charity that begins at home; canis in praesepi [Lat.], foes to nobleness," temporizer, trimmer.    ... show more

Dutch: egoïsme