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Audio Help [ee-goh, eg-oh] Pronunciation Key –noun, plural e·gos.
| 1. | the “I” or self of any person; a person as thinking, feeling, and willing, and distinguishing itself from the selves of others and from objects of its thought. |
| 2. | Psychoanalysis. the part of the psychic apparatus that experiences and reacts to the outside world and thus mediates between the primitive drives of the id and the demands of the social and physical environment. |
| 3. | egotism; conceit; self-importance: Her ego becomes more unbearable each day. |
| 4. | self-esteem or self-image; feelings: Your criticism wounded his ego. |
| 5. | (often initial capital letter) Philosophy.
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| 6. | Ethnology. a person who serves as the central reference point in the study of organizational and kinship relationships. |
[Origin: 1780–90; < L: I; psychoanalytic term is trans. of G (das) Ich (the) I]
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n. pl. e·gos
[New Latin, from Latin, I; see eg in Indo-European roots. Sense 2, translation of German Ich, a special use of ich, I, as a psychoanalytic term.] |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
ego
1714, as a term in metaphysics, from L. ego "I" (cognate with O.E. ic, see I). Psychoanalytic sense is 1910; sense of "conceit" is 1891. Egocentric is from 1900; ego-trip first recorded 1969. Egomania is from 1825; egomaniac is from 1890.
"In the book of Egoism it is written, Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity." [George Meredith, "The Egoist" (1879)]
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
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noun | |
| 1. | an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others |
| 2. | your consciousness of your own identity [syn: self] |
| 3. | (psychoanalysis) the conscious mind |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
ego1 [ˈiːgəu, ˈegou] noun
personal pride
Example: His criticism wounded my ego.
ego2 [ˈiːgəu, ˈegou] nounExample: His criticism wounded my ego.
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the part of a person that is conscious and thinks; the self
See also: egocentric, egoism
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
ego [(ee-goh)]
The “I” or self of any person (ego is Latin for “I”). In psychological terms, the ego is the part of the psyche that experiences the outside world and reacts to it, coming between the primitive drives of the id and the demands of the social environment, represented by the superego.
Note: The term ego is often used to mean personal pride and self-absorption: “Losing at chess doesn't do much for my ego.”
[Chapter:] Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology
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Ego
E"go\, n. [L., I.] (Met.) The conscious and permanent subject of all psychical experiences, whether held to be directly known or the product of reflective thought; -- opposed to non-ego.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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