Conceit (IPA: /kənˈsit/)
| Conceit (n.) |
That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception. |
| Conceit (n.) |
Faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension; as, a man of quick conceit. |
| Conceit (n.) |
Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy. |
| Conceit (n.) |
A fanciful, odd, or extravagant notion; a quant fancy; an unnatural or affected conception; a witty thought or turn of expression; a fanciful device; a whim; a quip. |
| Conceit (n.) |
An overweening idea of one's self; vanity. |
| Conceit (n.) |
Design; pattern. |
| Conceit (v. t.) |
To conceive; to imagine. |
| Conceit (v. i.) |
To form an idea; to think. |
| Conceit |
Extended rhetorical device |
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1921 film by Burton George |
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Book by Mary Novik |
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American musician |
| Conceit Synonyms |
Self-love, Amour Propre, Vanity |
| Conceit Synonyms |
Vanity, Conceitedness |
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| Translations |
Conceit in Spanish |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault, and I have no faults." - David Lee Roth |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Our self-esteem and conceit are European, but our culture and actions are Asiatic." - Anton Chekhov |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Pride comes before a fall- although in [Henry Kissinger's] case it's more conceit than pride." - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise;" - Poor Richard's Almanack |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel." - Foolishness |
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