Confidence vs Ego - What's the difference?
confidence | ego |
Passive self-assurance.
Expression or feeling of certainty.
The quality of trusting.
Information held in secret.
(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 confidence and ego
is that confidence is passive self-assurance while ego is ego.confidence
English
(wikipedia confidence)Noun
(-)Quotations
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author= , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=1citation, passage=But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.}} * 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 39 *: Khedron hesitated for a moment, wondering how far he should take Jeserac into his confidence . He knew that Jeserac was kindly and well-intentioned, but he also knew that he must be bound by the same taboos that controlled everyone on Diaspar.
Antonyms
* (self-assurance ): fearDerived terms
* confidence interval * confidence level * confidence trickego
English
Noun
(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.