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SUPER-EGO

Date "SUPER-EGO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)


Specialty Definition: SUPER-EGO

DomainDefinition

Medicine

A division of the mind developed from the representation of parents as figure of authority, concerned with the management of the instincts and acting as a conscience from the unconscious mind. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: SUPER-EGO

Non-English Usage: "SUPER-EGO" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Serbo-Croatian (superego).

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Usage Frequency: SUPER-EGO

"SUPER-EGO" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SUPER-EGO" is used about 46 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%4650,285

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: SUPER-EGO

Language Translations for "SUPER-EGO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

nadjá. (various references)

   

Danish

  

super-ego, over-jeg (ego ideal). (various references)

   

French

  

sur-moi (superego), surmoi. (various references)

   

German

  

Über-Ich, Überich. (various references)

   

Italian

  

super-io, super-ego. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uper-egosay

   

Ukrainian

  

суперего. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SUPER-EGO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: superego.

Words within the letters "e-e-g-o-p-r-s-u"

-1 letter: pugrees.

-2 letters: erugos, gropes, groups, grouse, peruse, poseur, pugree, purees, purges, repegs, repose, rogues, rouges, rugose, rupees, spurge, uprose.

-3 letters: egers, erose, erugo, euros, goers, gores, gorps, gorse, grees, grope, group, grues, ogees, ogres, peers, perse, pores, poser, pours, prees, prese, progs, prose, puree, purge, purse, reges, repeg, repos, reuse, rogue, ropes, roues.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-g-o-p-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: superegos.

 

+3 letters: superegoist.

 

+4 letters: geopressured, supercargoes, superegoists, supersurgeon.

 

+5 letters: groundskeeper, prolegomenous, superregional, supersurgeons, underexposing, unprogressive.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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