transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈsel-fish ]
adjective
Date: 1640
1. : concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself : seeking or concentrating on one's own advantage, pleasure, or well-being without regard for others
2. : arising from concern with one's own welfare or advantage in disregard of others
a selfish act
3. : being an actively replicating repetitive sequence of nucleic acid that serves no known function
selfish DNA
also : being genetic material solely concerned with its own replication
selfish genes
• self·ish·ly adverb
• self·ish·ness noun