## Meanings
1. A person's sense of their own importance or value.
2. An exaggerated sense of one's own importance; excessive pride.
3. In psychology, the part of the mind that connects a person to reality and balances their desires.

## Examples
- Winning the award was a real boost to his ego.
- His huge ego makes him impossible to work with.
- According to Freud, the ego mediates between our impulses and the outside world.

## Synonyms
- i
- ich

## Derived Forms
- ego-dystonic
- ego-expansion
- ego-minded
- ego-mindedness
- ego-self
- ego-surfing
- ego-syntonic
- ego-trip
- ego-tripping
- egoboo
- egoboost
- egocast

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: ego

## 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.

## AI Etymology
Ego is 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. A key historical form is Latin ego. In present-day use, it can mean a person's sense of their own importance or value, or a exaggerated sense of one's own importance; excessive pride. Derived formations include ego-dystonic, ego-expansion, ego-minded, ego-mindedness, ego-self.

## Topics
- Abstract Ideas

markdown

ego

Meanings

Thesaurus

Common collocations

Etymology

Topics

External links

Keyboard Shortcuts

General

Send feedback