We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and one's own desires.
Source: tatoeba (693447)
Ego
//ˈiɡo//
Synonyms for "ego" (104 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (21)
Strong matches (31)
Related words (52)
mindmotive forcemy humble selfmyselfnepheshnumber oneoneselfother selfourselvespersonapersonalitypleasure principlepneumapreconsciousprimitive selfpsychepsychic apparatuspurusharacial unconsciousruach
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self importanceself-centerednessself-centermentself-interestselfishnessshadeshadowshesoulspiritspiritual beingspiritussubconscioussubconscious mindsubconscious selfsubliminalsubliminal selfsubmerged mindsuperegothe selfthemthemselvestheyunconsciousunconscious mindvital impulseyouyours trulyyourselfyourselves
Noun(2 words)
Related word relations
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More general
8 entriesSynonyms
1 entriescauses desire
1 entriescoordinate
2 entriesderived
72 entriesShowing 16 of 72 words.
distinct from
1 entrieshas context
3 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
23 entriesShowing 16 of 23 words.
Translations
71 translations across 34 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- اَلْأَنَا noun (the self)
Catalan
4 entries- ego noun (the self)
- ego noun (psychoanalytic ego)
- jo noun (the self)
- jo noun (psychoanalytic ego)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 自我 noun (the self)
Czech
2 entries- ego noun (psychoanalytic ego)
- já noun (psychoanalytic ego)
Danish
3 entries- ego noun (the self)
- ego noun (psychoanalytic ego)
- jeg noun (psychoanalytic ego)
Dutch
2 entries- ego noun (the self)
- ego noun (psychoanalytic ego)
Esperanto
3 entries- egoo noun (the self)
- egoo noun (psychoanalytic ego)
- mio noun (psychoanalytic ego)
Finnish
3 entries- ego noun (the self)
- minä noun (the self)
- minä noun (psychoanalytic ego)
French
2 entries- moi noun (the self)
- moi noun (psychoanalytic ego)
Galician
3 entries- ego noun (the self)
- ego noun (psychoanalytic ego)
- eu noun (the self)
German
2 entries- Ego noun (the self)
- Ich noun (the self)
Greek
1 entries- εγώ noun (the self)
Hebrew
1 entries- אגו noun (the self)
Hindi
3 entries- अहं noun (the self)
- अहं noun (psychoanalytic ego)
- अहम् noun (psychoanalytic ego)
Hungarian
3 entries- szelf noun (the self)
- én noun (the self)
- én noun (psychoanalytic ego)
Icelandic
1 entries- sjálf noun (the self)
Ido
1 entries- ego noun (the self)
Indonesian
2 entries- diri noun (psychoanalytic ego)
- ego noun (psychoanalytic ego)
Japanese
2 entries- エゴ noun (the self)
- 自我 noun (the self)
Korean
1 entries- 자아 noun (the self)
Latin
1 entries- idem noun (the self)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- ego noun (the self)
- jeg noun (the self)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- eg noun (the self)
- ego noun (the self)
Persian
3 entries- آنمن noun (psychoanalytic ego)
- خود noun (the self)
- نفس noun (the self)
Polish
1 entries- ego noun (psychoanalytic ego)
Portuguese
4 entries- ego noun (the self)
- ego noun (psychoanalytic ego)
- eu noun (the self)
- eu noun (psychoanalytic ego)
Russian
2 entries- э́го noun (the self)
- я noun (the self)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- jȃ noun (the self)
- ȇgo noun (the self)
- е̑го noun (the self)
- ја̑ noun (the self)
Spanish
2 entries- ego noun (the self)
- yo noun (the self)
Swedish
1 entries- ego noun (the self)
Telugu
1 entries- అహం noun (the self)
Turkish
3 entries- benlik noun (psychoanalytic ego)
- ego noun (the self)
- ego noun (psychoanalytic ego)
Urdu
3 entries- انا noun (the self)
- انا noun (psychoanalytic ego)
- خاکسار noun (the self)
Vietnamese
1 entries- cái tôi noun (the self)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
You can never have too much ego.
Source: tatoeba (1247917)
I regard Vivi as the most amazing person I've met, even though I know that inflates her ego.
Source: tatoeba (1258175)
When his advances were rebuffed, he attempted to allay his rankled ego by publicly undermining her intelligence.
Source: tatoeba (1955634)
Showing 4 of 16 available sentences.
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