Usually means: Internalized societal norms and morals.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. superego: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. superego: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. superego: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. superego: Collins English Dictionary
  5. superego: Vocabulary.com
  6. Superego, superego: Wordnik
  7. superego: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. superego: Wiktionary
  9. superego: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. superego: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. superego: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. superego: Dictionary.com
  13. superego: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Superego (podcast), Superego: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. superego: Rhymezone
  16. superego: Free Dictionary
  17. superego: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. superego: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. superego: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. superego: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  5. superego: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

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noun:  (psychoanalysis) The part of the mind that acts as a self-critical conscience, reflecting social standards that have been learnt.

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