Intellect vs Ego - What's the difference?
intellect | ego |
the faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty (uncountable)
the capacity of that faculty (in a particular person) (uncountable)
a person who has that faculty to a great degree
(senseid)the self, especially with a sense of self-importance
* 1998 ,
(psychology, Freudian) the most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings
* 1954 , Calvin S. Hall, “A Primer of Freudian Psychology”
As nouns the difference between intellect and ego
is that intellect is the faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty (uncountable) while ego is ego.intellect
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- Intellect is one of man's greatest powers.
- They were chosen because of their outstanding intellect .
- Some of the world's leading intellects were meeting there.
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* See alsoSee also
* mindego
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(en noun) (wikipedia ego)- When every thought absorbs your attention completely, when you are so identified with the voice in your head and the emotions that accompany it that you lose yourself in every thought and every emotion, then you are totally identified with form and therefore in the grip of ego'. ' Ego is a conglomeration of recurring thought forms and conditioned mental-emotional patterns that are invested with a sense of I, a sense of self.
- In the well adjusted person the ego is the executive of the personality and is governed by the reality principle.