👉 In linguistics, the term "ego-syntonic" refers to a linguistic construct where two or more words have similar meanings but are used in different contexts. This can occur when one word is a noun and another is an adjective or verb. For example, "happy" can be considered ego-syntonic because it has both positive and negative connotations. The term was introduced by linguist Richard Korn [1] in his study of English language evolution. He argued that the