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noun
The part of the mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards that have been learnt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, medicine, psychoanalysis, psychology, sciences
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noun
(psychoanalysis) that part of the unconscious mind that acts as a conscience
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: conscience, scruples, moral sense, sense of right and wrong
History
From super + ego, from earlier form super-ego, calqued after German Über-Ich, from über- (“super-”) + Ich (“ego”), from the pronoun ich (“I”).
Across languages
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