ego

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person's sense of their own importance or value.

   Winning the award was a real boost to his ego.

2. 2
   noun

   An exaggerated sense of one's own importance; excessive pride.

   His huge ego makes him impossible to work with.

3. 3
   noun

   In psychology, the part of the mind that connects a person to reality and balances their desires.

   According to Freud, the ego mediates between our impulses and the outside world.

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.

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