egos

Noun

ego (countable and uncountable, plural egos)

1. The self, especially with a sense of self-importance.
   • When every thought absorbs your attention completely, when you are so identified with the voice in your head and the emotions that accompany it that you lose yourself in every thought and every emotion, then you are totally identified with form and therefore in the grip of ego. Ego is a...1998, Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
2. (Freudian) The most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings.
   • In the well adjusted person the ego is the executive of the personality and is governed by the reality principle.1954, Calvin S. Hall, A Primer of Freudian Psychology
3. A person's self-esteem and opinion of themselves.
   • Too many gay people "come out" publicly, yet fail to achieve truly healthy egos. They "adjust" to being less than whole or integrated persons.1976 February 7, Philip Gambone, “Coming Out: The Gay Identity Process”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 32, page 4
4. (genealogy) 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.)
   • the cousin of ego on the father's side

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