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noun
The self, especially with a sense of self-importance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: Freudian
Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences
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noun
A person's self-esteem and opinion of themselves.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The individual from whose point of view a family tree or pedigree chart is drawn, or the reference point from whom kinship terminology is relative. (Used without the definite article the.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: genealogy
Topics: anthropology, human-sciences, sciences
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verb
To damage someone's ego.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, transitive
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noun
(psychoanalysis) the conscious mind
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: mind, head, brain, psyche, nous
noun
your consciousness of your own identity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: self
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: consciousness
Narrower terms: anima
noun
an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: egotism, self-importance
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: pride, pridefulness
History
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.
Across languages
71 source translations are retained for this English entry.
