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egos

ego \e"go\, n.; pl. egos. [L., I.] The conscious and permanent subject of all psychical experiences, whether held to be directly known or the product of reflective thought; the subject consciously considered as ``I'' by a person; -- opposed to non-ego.

2. (Psychoanalysis) that one of the three parts of a person's psychic apparatus that mediates consciously between the drives of the id and the realities of the external physical and social environment, by integrating perceptions of the external world and organizing the reactions to it. Contrasted with the id and superego.

3. egotism; as, a job requiring a diplomat without too much ego.

4. self-esteem; as, he has an overinflated ego.

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egos

n. (plural of ego English)

Usage examples of "egos".

They may be soft-spoken and often remain in silence, but it is a thunderous silence that veritably drowns out the egos chattering loudly all around them.

Sum Total of what should be uniformly happy Egos fitting snug as a bug into sensory flatland: you have disrupted the cavalcade of smiley-faced Shadows.

And the purest freedom would be the Pure Eco, free of separate egos altogether.

It fails to see that if we take a bunch of egos with atomistic concepts and teach them that the universe is holistic, all we will actually get is a bunch of egos with holistic concepts.

Without a paradigm of mutual dialogical recognition and care, there is no way to pull anyone out of divine egoism and into worldcentric compassion, and from there into the Over-Soul that is the World Soul, on the way to the mystery of the Deep altogether, and so instead we watch a life scripted by divine egos, for divine egos, about divine egos, and this is meant to be the basis of a glorious new paradigm.

Eco camps is that if people truly learned and really understood the holistic oneness of reality and the great web, that would force them to give up their egos and they would indeed truly transform.

Because we all have egos, we fantasize that we will simply leap to the top of the mountain where the halos are handed out, but this never happens.

We continue to foster our alter egos, the many experiencers who are born with every experience.

One meets hundreds of people who mistake their own intentions because their egos have taken complete control.

By masticating and macerating the valuable teachings of Jesus with their egos, they are in fact eating the body of Christ.

It is because our egos are uncomfortable with the threat of the unknown that we try to fill the gaps in our knowledge by manufacturing explanations.

We see others who, like us, go about suffering in the mistakes their egos make as to who they are and what they are about.

But as they were, Lacone could at least pretend to touchy martial arts egos that all his locations were equally desirable.