Definitions for EGO

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EGO e·go

Spelling: [ee-goh, eg-oh]

IPA: /ˈi goʊ, ˈɛg oʊ/

Ego is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 11 anagrams from letters in EGO (ego).

Definitions for EGO

noun

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:
4. self-esteem or self-image; feelings:
5. (often initial capital letter) Philosophy. the enduring and conscious element that knows experience. Scholasticism. the complete person comprising both body and soul.
6. Ethnology. a person who serves as the central reference point in the study of organizational and kinship relationships.

Origin of EGO

1780-90; Latin: I; psychoanalytic term is translation of German (das) Ich (the) I

Examples for EGO

Self-promotion improves the self for McCarthy, but how effective, and healthy, is this inflation of the ego?

All I had in those days was a monstrous lack of ego which therefore required huge injections of actorly ego and misled people.

So any response has to make him hurt, personally; it has to puncture his ego, his pride.

The injuries, she says, “Are driven by ego and lack of judgment.”

He appeared to be somewhat infatuated with his own personality, with his ego, but that did not matter to me.

He overthrew the classical ideal of art, and enthroned the ego in its room.

The brute has only an obscure sort of ego, illumined by no moral light.

I am old who once was young, but ego in Arcadia fui and I have not forgotten.

She derives no sexual pleasure from her dominatrix gig, she says, but still likes “the arousal of the ego.”

Yes, he could—if he could "tune in" on his higher consciousness, or ego.