See Also: imager(dictionary)

ego (iou) and imager (iou)


ego (iou)



ego noun. Pl. -os. E19.
[Latin = I pronoun.]
Metaphysics. Oneself, the conscious thinking subject. Also joc. E19.
Psychoanalysis. That part of the mind which has a sense of individuality and is most conscious of self; spec. according to Freud, the part which mediates between the id and the superego and deals with external reality. L19.
Self-Esteem, self-importance; a person's sense of this in himself or herself. L19.
D. Carnegie Bores intoxicated with their own egos, drunk with a sense of their own importance.
Comb.: ego-ideal (a) Psychology a part of the mind that is evolved from the ego by awareness of parental and social standards and tries to impose upon it concepts of ideal behaviour; the superego; (b) a person's ideal conception of himself or herself; ego-identity Psychology a person's sense of identity as gained from self-perception and others' perception of him or her; ego-psychology a form of psychoanalysis dealing mainly with the ego, esp. as regards its control of libidinal impulses and its understanding of the external environment; ego trip colloq. an activity etc. devoted to increasing one's Self-Esteem; ego-trip verb intrans. (colloq.) indulge in an ego trip.
egoless adjective M20.
egolessness noun L20.

imager (iou)



imager noun. LME.
[Old French image(u)r (mod. imagier), formed as IMAGE noun: see -ER2.]
a. Hist. A maker of images; a sculptor, a carver. LME.
b. A device which reproduces an image of something. L20.
A person who describes something vividly or graphically. L19.
A person who forms a mental image or images. M20.