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Meaning of अहंकार in English

  • In an arrogant manner; with undue pride or self-importance.
  • The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity.
  • The conscious and permanent subject of all psychical experiences, whether held to be directly known or the product of reflective thought; -- opposed to non-ego.
  • The practice of too frequently using the word I; hence, a speaking or writing overmuch of one's self; self-exaltation; self-praise; the act or practice of magnifying one's self or parading one's own doings. The word is also used in the sense of egoism.
  • Apogean.
  • Alt. of Apophthegm
  • Pertaining to the ship Argo.
  • Arrogance.
  • To assume, or claim as one's own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit; as, the pope arrogated dominion over kings.
  • The act of arrogating, or making exorbitant claims; the act of taking more than one is justly entitled to.
  • Adoption of a person of full age.
  • A kind of posset made of eggs, brandy, sugar, and ale.
  • The doctrine of certain extreme adherents or disciples of Descartes and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which finds all the elements of knowledge in the ego and the relations which it implies or provides for.
  • Excessive love and thought of self; the habit of regarding one's self as the center of every interest; selfishness; -- opposed to altruism.
  • Personality.
  • Egoism.
  • The sound of a patient's voice so modified as to resemble the bleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in certain diseases within its cavity, as in pleurisy with effusion.
  • The deification of self.
  • To talk or write as an egotist.
  • The state of being egregious.
  • The theory, held by Euhemerus, that the gods of mythology were but deified mortals, and their deeds only the amplification in imagination of human acts.
  • The quality or state of being presumptuous.
  • Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments.

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