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conceit

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of conceit

1 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
Synonyms of conceit

metaphor
Words Related to conceit

device

analogy, circumlocution, code word, crank, dead metaphor, euphemism, simile

mixed metaphor
Phrases Synonymous with conceit

figure of speech
2 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.
Synonyms of conceit

chimera, daydream, delusion, dream, fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), figment, hallucination, illusion, nonentity, phantasm (also fantasm), pipe dream, unreality, vision
Words Related to conceit

ignis fatuus, mirage, will-o'-the-wisp

brainchild, idea

concoction, fable, fabrication, fiction, invention

envisaging, imaging, visualization

cloud-cuckoo-land, cloudland, Shangri-la, utopia

daymare, nightmare
Phrases Synonymous with conceit

castle in Spain, castle in the air
Near Antonyms of conceit

actuality, fact, reality
3 an often unjustified feeling of being pleased with oneself or with one's situation or achievements
  • Even though her novels are enormously popular, the writer is more prone to insecurity than to conceit.
Synonyms of conceit

bighead, complacence, complacency, conceitedness, ego, egotism, pomposity, pompousness, pride, pridefulness, self-admiration, self-conceit, self-esteem, self-glory, self-importance, self-love, self-satisfaction, smugness, swelled head, vaingloriousness, vainglory, vainness, vanity
Words Related to conceit

assurance, confidence, self-assurance, self-confidence

self-righteousness

arrogance, disdainfulness, haughtiness, imperiousness, lordliness, self-assertion, snobbishness, superciliousness, superiority

hubris, overconfidence, presumption

pretense (or pretence), pretension, pretentiousness

egoism, self-centeredness, selfishness

self-pride, self-respect
Near Antonyms of conceit

diffidence, self-doubt

self-disgust, self-hate, self-loathing

altruism, unselfishness

bashfulness, demureness, shyness, timidity, timidness

passiveness, passivity
Antonyms of conceit

humbleness, humility, modesty

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