id

Meaning

Noun

• The unconscious impulsive component of the in the Freudian psychoanalytic model.
• Alternate spelling of ide
• Identifier.

Related

Similar words

• lizard brain, reptilian brain

Origin

• From New Latin id ("it"), chosen by Freud’s translator as a translation of his use of German Es as a noun for this concept from the pronoun es.
• From Swedish id.
• Abbreviation of identifier
• Abbreviation of idem, from Latin idem ("same")