Usage examples (31)

• Blinking at the ludicrousness and self-interestedness of that statement.
• The anomaly, then—as Weber recognized—is the self-interestedness of the economy, not the anti-selfishness of the other spheres of society.
• The movement for limits — a Madisonian reform to alter the dynamic of interestedness that inevitably animates politics — was surging until four months after Republicans...
• However, through all the rigid discipline the little girl retained her natural buoyancy of childhood, the spontaneous interestedness, the cheerfulness and animation,...