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an elaborate or fanciful way of expressing something<the conceit that the crowd at the outdoor rock concert was a vast sea of people waving to the beat of the music>SynonymsmetaphorRelated Wordsanalogy, circumlocution, euphemism, similePhrasesfigure of speech
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a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality<his dream of swimming in the Olympics is nothing more than a conceit>— see fantasy 1
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an often unjustified feeling of being pleased with oneself or with oneʼs situation or achievements<even though her novels are enormously popular, the writer is more prone to insecurity than to conceit>— see complacence
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