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/ɪd
/noun Psychoanalysis
The part of the mind in which innate instinctive impulses and primary processes are manifest: the conflict between the drives of the id and the demands of the cultural superego...Compare with ego and superego.
- People talked about psychoanalysis - ego and superego and ids and repressed early experiences.
- It's just that some of us are better than others at letting our superegos muffle our whiny ids.
- They've been listening to their ids for too long - their inner Sharons.
Origin
1920s: from Latin, literally 'that', translating German es. The term was first used in this sense by Freud, following use in a similar sense by his contemporary, Georg Groddeck.
Rhymes
ID2
noun [mass noun]
Identification; identity: they weren’t carrying any ID [as modifier]: an ID card
verb (ID's, ID'ing, ID'd) [with object]
1 informal Establish the identity of: the Finnish authorities were able to ID him...
- Cops grilled the teen who lured Sandy to Plum Beach after they ID'd the youth through the victim's computer.
- And they still don't know, in many cases, whether their loved one has been positively ID'd.
- They were checking tattoo numbers and finally ID'd him and found out it was him.
1.1Ask (someone) to show proof of their age or identity: I got ID’d at the bar...
- I'm told she's 19 but I'm betting she gets ID'd all the time.
- I got ID'd, passed over my license, was given raised brows by the doorman who told me I don't show my age (Yes!).
- Since I haven't been ID'd for drinks since I was 17, I made a pretty fair assumption that I wouldn't need it.
abbreviation
Idaho (in official postal use).