ID'd

Variant of id

id definition

id (id)

noun

Psychoanalysis that part of the psyche which is regarded as the reservoir of the instinctual drives and the source of psychic energy: it is dominated by the pleasure principle and irrational wishing, and its impulses are controlled through the development of the ego and superego

Etymology: ModL < L, it, neut. sing. of is, he: used as transl. of Ger es, it

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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