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