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Definition: Superego |
SuperegoNoun1. (psychoanalysis) that part of the unconscious mind that acts as a conscience. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "superego" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1980. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | The component of the personality associated with ethics, standards, and self-criticism - the "conscience". It is derived mainly from identification with parents and parent substitutes. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Duty | Morality, morals, decalogue; case of conscience; conscientiousness; (probity); conscience, inward monitor, still small voice within, sense of duty, tender conscience, superego; the hell within. dueness; propriety, fitness, seemliness, amenability, decorum, gr/to prepon/gr the thing, the proper thing; the right thing to do, the proper thing to do. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Superego |
| English words defined with "superego": introjection. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "superego": Freudian Theory. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Superego" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Spanish (superego). |
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| "Superego" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Superego" is used about 221 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 221 | 20,297 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "superego": superego-degradation, superego-development, superego-formation, superego-precursor, superego-precursors, superego-structure. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ego id superego | 51 |
superego | 24 |
ego freud id superego | 10 |
ego freud freud id sigmund superego | 4 |
cafe superego | 3 |
e ego id superego | 3 |
freud superego | 3 |
ego superego | 3 |
ego freuds id superego | 3 |
id superego | 2 |
ego freud id reference superego | 2 |
ego freud id sigmund superego | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "superego"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الأنا العليا. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | суперего. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sur-moi (super-ego). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | א י "עליון. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uperegosay сверх-я. (various references) super-ego. (various references) superego. (various references) överjag. (various references) ลักษ"ะนิสัยที่แส"งถึงความรู้สึกผิ"ชอบ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "superego": superegoist, superegoists, superegos. (additional references) | |
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"Superego" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Superoo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| 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. | |
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