Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Selfishness; egotism; egoism: the opposite of altruism.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare Selfishness; egoism.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete selfishness; egoism
  • noun obsolete suicide

Etymologies

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Latin suus one's own.

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Examples

  • _his own_ things (‘sua’), and the sin itself, ‘suicism’.

    English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

  • ‘suist’, and ‘suicism’, in lieu of those which have ultimately been adopted.

    English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

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