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self-concern

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con⋅cern

  [kuhn-surn]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to relate to; be connected with; be of interest or importance to; affect: The water shortage concerns us all.
2. to interest or engage (used reflexively or in the passive, often fol. by with or in): She concerns herself with every aspect of the business.
3. to trouble, worry, or disquiet: I am concerned about his health.
–noun
4. something that relates or pertains to a person; business; affair: Law is the concern of lawyers.
5. a matter that engages a person's attention, interest, or care, or that affects a person's welfare or happiness: The party was no concern of his.
6. worry, solicitude, or anxiety: to show concern for someone in trouble.
7. important relation or bearing: This news is of concern to all of us.
8. a commercial or manufacturing company or establishment: the headquarters of an insurance concern.
9. Informal. any material object or contrivance.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME concernen (< MF concerner) < ML concernere to relate to, distinguish (LL: to mix for sifting), equiv. to L con- con- + cernere to sift

Synonyms:
1. touch, involve. 3. disturb. 5. burden, responsibility. Concern, care, worry connote an uneasy and burdened state of mind. Concern implies an anxious sense of interest in something: concern over a friend's misfortune. Care suggests a heaviness of spirit caused by dread, or by the constant pressure of burdensome demands: Poverty weighs a person down with care. Worry is an active state of agitated uneasiness and restless apprehension: He was distracted by worry over the stock market. 8. firm, house.

Antonyms:
6. indifference.
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self-con·cern   (sělf'kən-sûrn')
n.  Selfish or excessive concern for oneself.
self'-con·cerned' adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

concern 
c.1450, from M.L. concernere "concern, touch, belong to," figurative use of L.L. concernere "to sift, mix, as in a sieve," from L. com- "with" + cernere "to sift," hence "perceive, comprehend" (see crisis). Apparently the sense of the prefix shifted to intensive in M.L. Meaning of "relate to" is 16c.; "worry" is 17c. To whom it may concern first recorded 1868.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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