Ego

Definition: Ego

Ego

Noun

1. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others.

2. Your consciousness of your own identity.

3. (psychoanalysis) the conscious mind.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ego" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Etymology: Ego \E"go\, noun. [Latin expression,]. (references)

Health

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EGO

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Synonyms: Ego

Auxiliary

Ally; friend; confidant, fidus Achates, pal, buddy, alter ego.

Deputy

Regent, viceregent, vizier, minister, vicar; premier; (director); chancellor, prefect, provost, warden, lieutenant, archon, consul, proconsul; viceroy; (governor); commissioner; Tsung-li Yamen, Wai Wu Pu; plenipotentiary, alter ego.

Extrinsicality

Noun: extrinsicality, objectiveness, non ego; extraneousness; accident; appearance, phenomenon.

Friend

Noun: friend, friend of one's bosom; alter ego; best friend, bosom friend, soulmate, fast friend; amicus; usque ad aras; fidus Achates; persona grata.

Hope

At spes non fracta; ego spem prietio non emo; un Dieu est ma fiance; " hope! thou nurse of young desire "; in hoc signo spes mea; in hoc signo vinces; la speranza e il pan de miseri; l'esperance est le songe d'un homme eveille; " the mighty hopes that make us men"; " the sickening pang of hope deferred ".

Identity

Facsimile; (copy); homoousia: alter ego; (similar); ipsissima verba; (exactness); same; self, very, one and the same; very thing, actual thing; real McCoy; no other; one and only; in the flesh.

Immateriality

Personality; I, myself, me; ego, spirit. (soul); astral body; immaterialism; spiritualism, spiritualist.

Intrinsicality

Noun: intrinsicality, inbeing, inherence, inhesion; subjectiveness; ego; egohood; essence, noumenon; essentialness; Adjective: essential part, quintessence, incarnation, quiddity, gist, pith, marrow, core, sap, lifeblood, backbone, heart, soul; important part; (importance).

Similarity

Analogue; the like; match, pendant, fellow companion, pair, mate, twin, double, counterpart, brother, sister; one's second self, alter ego, chip of the old block, par nobile fratrum, Arcades ambo, birds of a feather, et hoc genus omne; gens de meme famille.

Crosswords: Ego

Albanian (ego), Czech (ego), French (ego), German (ego), Hungarian (ego, i), Italian (ego), Latin (ego, I, I am, me, myself, self), Portuguese (self), Romanian (i), Spanish (ego), Swedish (ego, self), Turkish (ego).

With a little more ego, he can be President (The Monkees; writing credit: Dee Caruso; Gerald Gardner)

If there's anything more important than my ego around here, I want it caught and shot now (The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy; writing credit: Douglas Adams; John Lloyd)

What you should have done was land your plane! you don't own that plane, the tax payers do! Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash (Top Gun; writing credit: Ehud Yonay; Jim Cash)

Son, your ego is writing checks your body can't cash (Top Gun; writing credit: Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr.)

Hey, I'd shake your hand but I'm into the game, plus I think it would be better for my ego if we didn't stand right next to each other (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

I alone am the one you don't know you need take heed feed your ego (Inside Out; performing artist: Eve 6)

I'm gonna destroy my ego (Die Another Day; performing artist: Madonna; writing credit: Madonna)

The ego sings of castles and kings and things (Porpoise Song; performing artist: Monkees)

Maybe it was only ego talking (How Are You; performing artist: Usher)

Eikosi gynaikes kai ego (1973)

Ego rezilepsa ton Hitler (1970)

Ballada o Beringe i ego druz'yakh (1970)

Ego Trip (1969)

Adyutant ego prevoskhoditel'stva (1969)

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Books

• Ego, ho Petros : mythistorema (reference)

• Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron (reference)

• Ego Trip's Big Book of Racism (reference)

• Regression to Dependence: A Second Opportunity for Ego Integration and Developmental Progression (reference)

• Ego & Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Ego Trip (reference)

• Funktsionalnyi Analiz I Ego Prilozheniia (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Dexter's Laboratory - Ego Trip (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Serve the Ego [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• EGO M100 PDA ORGANIZER (reference)

• I2Go eGo 64MB MP3 Player (Blue) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Gagry. Dvorets Ego Vysochestva Printsa Ol'denburgskago s shosse. Credit: Library of Congress.

Shkola v s. Pid'ma imeni Ego Imperatorskago Vysochestva Gosudaria Nasliednika TSesarevicha Velikago Kniazia Aleksieia Nikolaevicha. [Rossiiskaia imperiia]. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dom Nikolaia Savvicha Abaza v byvshem ego imienii Nidzhi. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mugan'. Solonets. Khlopok zhidok i plokh. Vdali sokhnet i ego niet. [Nikolaevka]. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mugan'. Slieva khoroshii khlopok. Sprava ego niet. Ta i drugaia storony unavozheny, no solonets guliaet, ibo v proshlom godu bylo obratno. [Nikolaevka]. Credit: Library of Congress.

Andrei Petrov Kalganov. Byvshii master zavoda. Na sluzhbie byl 55 liet, ot rody 72 g. Imiel schastie podnosit' khlieb-sol' Ego Imperatorskomu Velichestvu Gosudariu Imperatoru Nikolaiu II. [Zlatoust]. Credit: Library of Congress.

Gramota Sv. Dimitriia Rostovskago Mitropolita, s avtografom ego, dana v 1705 godu. Muz. opisi No. 3081. V Rostovskom muzeie. Rostov Velikii. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bei vraga kak ego bili ottsy i starshie brat'ia -- matrosy Oktiabria!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Vrangel' eschche zhiv -- dobei ego bez poshchady. Credit: Library of Congress.

Negramotnyi tot-zhe slepoi -- vsiudu ego zhdut neudachi i neschast'ia / A. Radakov. Credit: Library of Congress.

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This is as ridiculous a way of resisting, as Juvenal thought it of fighting; ubi tu pulsas, ego vapulo tantum. (Second Treatise of Government)

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If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

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Health

Every exertion of my will, every attempt to put an end to the disintegration of the outer world and the dissolution of my ego, seemed to be wasted effort. (references)

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Expressions using "ego": alter ego ♦ ego ideal ♦ ego spem prietio non emo ♦ ego trip ♦ feed one's ego ♦ low ego ♦ my other ego. Additional references.

Beginning with "ego": ego-based, ego-bass, ego-boost, ego-boosting, ego-bound, ego-boundaries, ego-building, ego-centred, ego-centric, ego-centrically, ego-competence, ego-defence, ego-defensive, ego-degradation, ego-development, ego-diffusion, ego-driven, ego-enhancement, ego-evolution, ego-feeling, ego-free, ego-fulfilment, ego-function, ego-functions, ego-gratifying, ego-ideal, ego-identity, ego-infested, ego-involvement, ego-less, ego-life, Ego-mancs, ego-organization, ego-pampering, ego-plated, ego-psychology, ego-reward, ego-satisfaction, ego-state, ego-states, ego-strengthening, ego-structures, ego-supportive, ego-tossery, ego-trip, ego-tripping, ego-trips.

Ending with "ego": alter-ego.

Albanian

egoizëm (egoism, self interest, selfishness, self-love, self-regard), ego, vetja, uni (self). (various references)

Arabic 

‏غرور (arrogance, bighead, conceit, delusion, egoism, egotism, pretension, pride, sufficiency, vanity), ‏الذات (essence, person, self), ‏الانا. (various references)

Bulgarian 

моето 'аз' (person), его. (various references)

Chinese 

自我. (various references)

Czech

ego, sebevìdomí (conceit, presumption, self confidence), samolibost (complacence, self esteem, self satisfaction, self-complacency). (various references)

Danish

ego (proprium, the ego, the selfhood), jeg-spaltning (dissociation of the personality, split ego), ideal-jeg (ego ideal), jeg-analyse (ego analysis), jeg-drift (ego instincts), jeg-forstyrrelse (derangement of the ego), jeg-grænse (ego limit), jeg-hjernen (ego brain), jeg-instinkt (ego instincts), jeg-komplex (ego complex), jeg-lammelse (ego paralysis), jeg-psykose (ego psychosis), underjeg (sub ego), jeg-struktur (ego structure), jeg-svækkelse (ego weakness), legems-jeg (body ego), narcissistisk libido (ego libido), over-jeg (ego ideal, super-ego), personlighedsstruktur (ego structure), proprium (proprium, the ego, the selfhood), selv (even, herself, himself, itself, self), sub-ego (sub ego), traenings-ego (drill ego), jeg-libido (ego libido). (various references)

Dutch

ego-instinct (ego instincts), ego libido (ego libido), tweespalt (quarrel), innerlijke gespletenheid (dissociation of the personality, split ego), ik-zwakte (ego weakness), ik-structuur (ego structure), ik-stoornis (derangement of the ego), ik-ideaal (ego ideal), ik-complex (ego complex). (various references)

Farsi 

نفس (Air, Breath, Oneself, Self, Snuff, Wind), ضمیر (Conscience), خود (Helmet, Itself, Own, Self). (various references)

Finnish

minä (I, the ego). (various references)

French

ego, moi, arrogance. (various references)

German

ego. (various references)

Greek 

εγώ (I, me). (various references)

Hebrew 

א�'ו. (various references)

Hungarian

ego (i), én (i, me, much less could I go). (various references)

Indonesian

diri sendiri. (various references)

Italian

ego, l'io (self), io (i, me). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

我 (me, oneself, self). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しゅが (self), しゅか�"てき (subject, subjectivity), しゅか�" (chief editor, letter, management, manager, managing editor, subject, subjectivity, supervision, supervisor), しょうせい (a laugh, a minor success, bead or front sight of a firearm, calling together, commander, firing, invitation, laughter, sound of a bell), われ (broken piece, me, oneself, self), エゴ . (various references)

Korean 

자아. (various references)

Pig Latin

egoay.(various references)

Portuguese

eu (i, self). (various references)

Russian 

субъект мысли, эго (i), личность;самолюбие (egos). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ja (i, self-hood). (various references)

Spanish

el yo, ego. (various references)

Swedish

ego (self). (various references)

Thai

อัตตา (ทางจิตวิทยา), ความถือตัวเองเป็นสำคัญ. (various references)

Turkish

ego, kendine güven (aplomb, assertiveness, assuredness, confidence, self confidence, self sufficiency, self-assurance, self-reliance), düşünen ve iradesini kullanan insan, benlik (individuality, personality), ben (beauty spot, I, mole, myself, nevus). (various references)

Ukrainian

я, его. (various references)

ego. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "ego": egocentric, egocentrically, egocentricities, egocentricity, egocentrics, egocentrism, egocentrisms, egoism, egoisms, egoist, egoistic, egoistical, egoistically, egoists, egoless, egomania, egomaniac, egomaniacal, egomaniacally, egomaniacs, egomanias, egos, egotism, egotisms, egotist, egotistic, egotistical, egotistically, egotists. (additional references)

Words ending with "ego": forego, grego, nonego, sego, superego. (additional references)

Words containing "ego": allegorical, allegorically, allegoricalness, allegoricalnesses, allegories, allegorise, allegorised, allegorises, allegorising, allegorist, allegorists, allegorization, allegorizations, allegorize, allegorized, allegorizer, allegorizers, allegorizes, allegorizing, allegory, archegonia, archegonial, archegoniate, archegoniates, archegonium, begone, begonia, begonias, begorah, begorra, begorrah, begot, begotten, categoric, categorical, categorically, categories, categorise, categorised, categorises, categorising, categorization, categorizations, categorize, categorized, categorizes, categorizing, category, chegoe, chegoes, foregoer. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ego" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aego, bego, dego, eago, eao, ebo, eboj, ebom, Ecga, eeo, eeoc, efg, Efgh, efo, ega, egab, egae, egal, egam, egap, egay, egb, egd, Egdon, Ege, egen, egge, eggo, Eggum, eggy, egh, egi, egic, egip, egit, egl, eglo, egm, egn, egoa, egod, egoe, egoic, egon, egoo, egor, egot, egt, egu, egw, ehg, Eige, ej, eja, ejo, Elgol, elo, emg, emo, enge, Engh, engi, engl, engo, eno, eo, eoa, eoc, eog, eogy, eoh, eoi, eok, Eoq, eov, eox, eoz, epo, eqo, ero, eroo, eso, esoo, eto, Etoh, Euge, Eugui, Euo, evo, ewg, ewo, eyo, Eyob, ezo, geogo, geop, geot, geto, igo, igoo, igu, jego, jeho, lego, meog, nego, ngo, ogo, Peggo, pego, Qgi, Qgo, rego, rgo, ugo, Ugoh, vegi, vego, Xeg. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: go, oe.

+1 letter: doge, egos, ergo, goer, goes, gone, gore, loge, ogee, ogle, ogre, sego.

+2 letters: agone, befog, begot, bogey, bogie, bogle, conge, defog, dodge, doges, dogey, dogie, ergot, erugo, fogey, fogie, forge, gecko, gemot, genoa, genom, genro, geode, geoid, gesso, globe, glove, gloze, gnome, godet, goers, gofer, golem, gonef, goner, gooey, goose, gored, gores, gorge, gorse, gouge, goxes, grego, grope, grove, lodge, loges, longe, ogees, ogive, ogled, ogler, ogles, ogres, omega, pengo, pogey, roger, rogue, rouge, segno, segos, togae, togue, vogie, vogue, wodge, yogee.