ego
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anthropology
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Latin ego (“I”). Chosen by Freud’s translator as a translation of his use of German Ich as a noun for this concept from the pronoun ich (“I”). Doublet of I and Ich.
Inflected forms:
form: egos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: egos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: egoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: egoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: egoed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ego'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ego'd
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The self, especially with a sense of self-importance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When every thought absorbs your attention completely, when you are so identified with the voice in your head and the emotions that accompany it that you lose yourself in every thought and every emotion, then you are totally identified with form and therefore in the grip of ego. Ego is a conglomeration of recurring thought forms and conditioned mental-emotional patterns that are invested with a sense of I, a sense of self.
gloss: The most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In the well adjusted person the ego is the executive of the personality and is governed by the reality principle.
‘Everything begins with “I”, you mean. Which is ego,’ said Tom, placing an ankle behind his ear, ‘not id.’
gloss: A person's self-esteem and opinion of themselves.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Too many gay people "come out" publicly, yet fail to achieve truly healthy egos. They "adjust" to being less than whole or integrated persons.
My columns in the early days of the Labour government often featured John Prescott, who was in charge of transport as part of a mega-department created to match his ego.
gloss: The individual from whose point of view a family tree or pedigree chart is drawn, or the reference point from whom kinship terminology is relative. (Used without the definite article the.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the cousin of ego on the father's side
gloss: To damage someone's ego.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
Synonyms: I
Ich
Derived words: absolute ego
alter ego
auxiliary ego
egoboo
ego boost
egoboost
egocast
egocentric
egocentrically
egocentricity
egocentrism
egocidal
egocide
ego death
ego dissolution
egodystonic
ego-dystonic
egoed
ego-expansion
egofag
egofaggotry
egofest
egohood
egoic
egoical
egoism
egoist
egoistic
egoistical
egoistically
egoitis
egoity
egoless
ego lifter
ego lifting
egolike
egology
ego loss
egomania
egomaniac
ego-minded
ego-mindedness
egonomics
egophony
egophoric
egoscan
ego-self
ego shooter
egosurf
ego surfing
ego-surfing
egosurfing
egosyntonic
ego-syntonic
egotheism
egotism
egotist
egotistic
egotistical
egotistically
ego trip
ego-trip
ego-tripping
empirical ego
executive ego function
massage someone's ego
nonego
non-empirical ego
pure ego
super-ego
superego
transcendental ego
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: jo
lang: Catalan
word: ego
lang: Czech
word: ego
lang: Czech
word: já
lang: Danish
word: jeg
lang: Danish
word: ego
lang: Dutch
word: ego
lang: Esperanto
word: egoo
lang: Esperanto
word: mio
lang: Finnish
word: minä
lang: French
word: moi
lang: Galician
word: ego
lang: Hindi
word: अहं
roman: ahã
lang: Hindi
word: अहम्
roman: aham
lang: Hungarian
word: én
lang: Indonesian
word: ego
lang: Indonesian
word: diri
lang: Persian
word: آنمن
roman: ân-man
lang: Polish
word: ego
lang: Portuguese
word: ego
lang: Portuguese
word: eu
lang: Turkish
word: benlik
lang: Turkish
word: ego
lang: Urdu
word: انا
roman: anā