selfish vs self-seeking / self-serving

[arademaker]

Synsets

1. ewn-02105605-a selfish concerned chiefly or only with yourself and your advantage to the exclusion of others "Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights"- Maria Weston Chapman
2. ewn-02106198-s self-serving, self-seeking interested only in yourself

Motivation

As a non-native speaker, I am not sure, but they seems to be quite similar by the definitions.

[jmccrae]

This is yet another case of #35 :)

There is also the synset for 'self-centered' that could be also be merged in

ewn-00102561-a (Interlingual Index: i538)
(a) egoistic, egoistical, egocentric, self-centered, self-centred

limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs