Synonyms for ego

Grammar : Noun

Spell : ee-goh, eg-oh

Phonetic Transcription : ˈi goʊ, ˈɛg oʊ

Définition of ego

Origin : 1714, as a term in metaphysics, from Latin ego "I" (cognate with Old English ic, see I). Psychoanalytic sense is from 1894; sense of "conceit" is 1891. Ego trip first recorded 1969.
In the book of Egoism it is written, Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. [George Meredith, "The Egoist," 1879]

noun personality

Example sentences :

He appeared to be somewhat infatuated with his own personality, with his ego, but that did not matter to me.
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

Yes, he could—if he could "tune in" on his higher consciousness, or ego.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 » by Various

I am old who once was young, but ego in Arcadia fui and I have not forgotten.
Extract from : « Little Miss Grouch » by Samuel Hopkins Adams

The brute has only an obscure sort of ego, illumined by no moral light.
Extract from : « Napoleon the Little » by Victor Hugo

He overthrew the classical ideal of art, and enthroned the ego in its room.
Extract from : « A History of French Literature » by Edward Dowden

It is the Non-ego through and by which the Ego is endowed with self-discernment.
Extract from : « Fragments of science, V. 1-2 » by John Tyndall

This ego has created from all eternity, it will go on creating in all eternity.
Extract from : « Christianity As A Mystical Fact » by Rudolf Steiner

I felt like that, and I hugged my Ego; so presently he ministered to it with sweetmeats.
Extract from : « Appearances » by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson

I telegraphed my other ego, my dear brother Jim, in Pittsburg.
Extract from : « An Anarchist Woman » by Hutchins Hapgood

But no man knows what forces are at work in the determination of his ego.
Extract from : « The Professor at the Breakfast Table » by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)

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