ego : Idioms & Phrases

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alter ego

  • noun a very close and trusted friend who seems almost a part of yourself
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ego ideal

  • noun (psychoanalysis) the part of the ego that contains an ideal of personal excellence toward which a person strives
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ego trip

  • noun an act undertaken to increase your own power and influence or to draw attention to your own importance
    self-aggrandizement; self-aggrandisement.
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non-ego

Non-e"go noun
Etymology
L., not I.
Definitions
  1. (Metaph.) The union of being and relation as distinguished from, and contrasted with, the ego. See Ego.
Webster 1913