#395 ego

ego- the self of an individual person; the conscious subject; psychoanalysis the conscious mind, based on perception of the environment from birth onwards

- C19 from Latin I

egocentric, egocentrism, ego ideal, egoist, egomania, egotism, egotist

I think his ego is as hardened as his arteries and his hearing.

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