Egocide

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    destruction of the ego countable, uncountable

    "Fortunately, he did not commit suicide, but rather a type of "egocide" in which the false self-dies and the true self is born"

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"Fortunately, he did not commit suicide, but rather a type of "egocide" in which the false self-dies and the true self is born"

Etymology

From ego + -cide.

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