e|go

e|go «EE goh, EHG oh», noun, plural e|gos.

1. the individual as a whole in his capacity to think, feel, and act; self.

2. conceit; egotism: »

The new boy's display of ego made the other students dislike him.

3. Psychoanalysis. the part of the personality that is conscious of the environment and adapts to it.

4. Philosophy. the element of being that consciously and continuously enables an individual to think, feel, and act.

╂[< Latin ego I]