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1. (n.) ego
the “I” or self of any person; a thinking, feeling, and conscious being, able to distinguish itself from other selves.
2. ego
Psychoanal. the conscious, rational component of the psyche that experiences and reacts to the outside world and mediates between the demands of the id and superego.
3. ego
egotism; self-importance.
4. ego
self-esteem or self-image.
5. ego
(often cap.) Philos.
6. ego
the enduring and conscious element that knows experience.
Etymology: (1780–90; < L: I; psychoanalytic term is trans. of G (das) Ich (the) I)
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| Definition of 'ego' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) ego, egotism, self-importance
an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
2. (noun) self, ego
your consciousness of your own identity
3. (noun) ego
(psychoanalysis) the conscious mind
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1. (noun) ego
sb's sense of pride
Her criticism hurt his ego.
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| Definition of 'ego' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) ego
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
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. ego
and Non-Ego (i. e. I and Not-I, or Self and Not-Self), are terms used in philosophy to denote respectively the subjective and the objective in cognition, what is from self and what is from the external to self, what is merely individual and what is universal.
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| Definition of 'ego' |
U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. ego
The conscious portion of the personality structure which serves to mediate between the demands of the primitive instinctual drives, (the id), of internalized parental and social prohibitions or the conscience, (the superego), and of reality.
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Sense: personal pride
His criticism wounded my ego.
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 Afrikaans: ego |
 Arabic: الأنا |
 Bulgarian: его |
 Brazilian: ego |
 Czech: ego, já |
 German: das Ego |
 Danish: ego; selvfølelse |
 Greek: εγωισμός, περηφάνια |
 Spanish: amor propio, orgullo |
 Estonian: eneseuhkus |
 Farsi: غرور |
 Finnish: ego |
 French: égo |
 Hebrew: “אָנִי” עַצמִיוּת |
 Hindi: अहम् |
 Croatian: ego |
 Hungarian: személy(iség) |
 Indonesian: ego |
 Icelandic: sjálfsálit |
 Italian: ego |
 Japanese: 自尊心 |
 Korean: 자아(自我) |
 Lithuanian: ego |
 Latvian: patmīlība |
 Malay: ego |
 Dutch: ego |
 Norwegian: selvfølelse, forfengeligh |
 Polish: duma |
 Persian: غرور |
 Pashto: ځانمنی |
 Portuguese: ego |
 Romanian: orgoliu |
 Russian: самолюбие |
 Slovak: ego, ja |
 Slovenian: osebni ponos |
 Serbian: ego |
 Swedish: ego, fåfänga |
 Thai: ความถือตัวเองเป็นสำคัญ |
 Turkish: benlik, ego |
 Taiwanese: 自尊 |
 Ukrainian: его |
 Urdu: ذاتی وقار |
 Vietnamese: lòng tự trọng |
 Chinese: 自负 |
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