interestedness
nounEtymology From interested + -ness.
1
The state or quality of being interested, or having an interest; interest
2
selfishness.
- I might give them what degree of credit I pleaſed ; and take them with abatement for Mr. Solmes's intereſtedneſs, if I thought fit1748, [Samuel Richardson], Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume II, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, page 214:
- Derived terms
- self-interestedness