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 Definitions of ego  [ˈi goʊ, ˈɛg oʊ]  

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Definition of 'ego' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

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)

Definition of 'ego' Princeton's WordNet 

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


Definition of 'ego' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) ego
sb's sense of pride
Her criticism hurt his ego.


Definition of 'ego' Webster Dictionary 

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


Definitions of 'ego' The Nuttall Encyclopedia 

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.


Definition of 'ego' U.S. National Library of Medicine 

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.


Translation of 'ego' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: personal pride
His criticism wounded my ego.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: ego Arabic flag Arabic: الأنا Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: его
Brazilian flag Brazilian: ego Czech flag Czech: ego, já German flag German: das Ego
Danish flag Danish: ego; selvfølelse Greek flag Greek: εγωισμός, περηφάνια Spanish flag Spanish: amor propio, orgullo
Estonian flag Estonian: eneseuhkus Farsi flag Farsi: غرور Finnish flag Finnish: ego
French flag French: égo Hebrew flag Hebrew: “אָנִי” עַצמִיוּת Hindi flag Hindi: अहम्
Croatian flag Croatian: ego Hungarian flag Hungarian: személy(iség) Indonesian flag Indonesian: ego
Icelandic flag Icelandic: sjálfsálit Italian flag Italian: ego Japanese flag Japanese: 自尊心
Korean flag Korean: 자아(自我) Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: ego Latvian flag Latvian: patmīlība
Malay flag Malay: ego Dutch flag Dutch: ego Norwegian flag Norwegian: selvfølelse, forfengeligh
Polish flag Polish: duma Persian flag Persian: غرور Pashto flag Pashto: ځانمنی
Portuguese flag Portuguese: ego Romanian flag Romanian: orgoliu Russian flag Russian: самолюбие
Slovak flag Slovak: ego, ja Slovenian flag Slovenian: osebni ponos Serbian flag Serbian: ego
Swedish flag Swedish: ego, fåfänga Thai flag Thai: ความถือตัวเองเป็นสำคัญ Turkish flag Turkish: benlik, ego
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 自尊 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: его Urdu flag Urdu: ذاتی وقار
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: lòng tự trọng Chinese flag Chinese: 自负

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