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Ego vs Jealousy - What's the difference?

ego | jealousy |

As nouns the difference between ego and jealousy

is that ego is (the self)the self, especially with a sense of self-importance while jealousy is a state of suspicious guarding towards a spouse, lover etc., from fears of infidelity.

ego

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia ego)
  • (senseid)the self, especially with a sense of self-importance
  • * 1998 ,
  • 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.
  • (psychology, Freudian) the most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings
  • * 1954 , Calvin S. Hall, “A Primer of Freudian Psychology”
  • In the well adjusted person the ego is the executive of the personality and is governed by the reality principle.

    Derived terms

    * alter ego * (l) * egoism * egoist * egoistic * egoistical * egoistically * (l) * egotism * egotist * egotistic * egotistical * egotistically * ego trip * empirical ego * pure ego * superego * transcendental ego

    See also

    * id * superego

    jealousy

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A state of suspicious guarding towards a spouse, lover etc., from fears of infidelity.
  • (countable) A resentment towards someone for a perceived advantage or superiority they hold.
  • * 1907 , Charles J. Archard, The Portland Peerage Romance :
  • Jealousy was, however, aroused among the English nobility at the favouritism shown the Dutch newcomer.
  • Envy towards another's possessions
  • * 1891 , Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne, translated by R. W. Phipps, Memoirs Of Napoleon Bonaparte :
  • .
  • (archaic) A close concern for someone or something, solicitude, vigilance.
  • * :
  • For euer I supoosed that he had ben to yonge and to tendyr to take vpon hym these aduentures / And therfore by my wille I wold haue dryuen hym aweye for Ialousy that I had of his lyf / for it maye be no yong knyghtes dede that shal enchyeue this aduenture to the ende

    Synonyms

    * jealousness

    Antonyms

    * compersion