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Emo vs Ego - What's the difference?

emo | ego |

As nouns the difference between emo and ego

is that emo is a particular style of hardcore punk rock while ego is (the self)the self, especially with a sense of self-importance.

As an adjective emo

is emotional; sensitive.

As a proper noun Emo

is a village in Ireland.

emo

English

(wikipedia emo)

Noun

  • A particular style of hardcore punk rock
  • An individual or group of people associated with that subculture and musical style.
  • Any form of guitar-driven alternative rock that is particularly or notably emotional
  • An individual or group of people associated with a fashion or stereotype of that style of rock.
  • A young person who is considered to be over-emotional or stereotypically emo.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (often, pejorative) Emotional; sensitive.
  • (informal, often, pejorative) Depressed.
  • * 2008 , Vanity Fair (issue 578)
  • Criticism drapes a black velvet cape across the puddle that interrupts the path to change, to be emo about it.
  • Associated with youth subcultures embodying emotional sensitivity.
  • * 2007 , James A. Reinking, Robert Von Der Osten, Strategies for successful writing
  • The one thing everyone agrees on is that they've never encountered a band that claimed to be emo .
  • * 2012 , Megan Bostic, Never Eighteen
  • Trevor looks kind of emo , rail thin, dark hair, guyliner, wears black all the time.

    Derived terms

    * emotard

    Anagrams

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    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