ego

Plural: egos

Noun

• The conscious self; one's sense of self-importance.
• an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
• your consciousness of your own identity
• (psychoanalysis) the conscious mind
• The self, especially with a sense of self-importance.
• The most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings.
• A person's self-esteem and opinion of themselves.
• 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.)

Examples

• His ego swelled after he played a seven-letter word in Words With Friends, unaware it was a common one.
• the cousin of ego on the father's side

Synonyms

egotism, self, self-importance, I, Ich