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(Entry 1 of 2)
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
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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
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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 humility than to conceit
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- amour propre,
- bighead,
- complacence,
- complacency,
- conceitedness,
- ego,
- egotism,
- pomposity,
- pompousness,
- pride,
- pridefulness,
- self-admiration,
- self-assumption,
- self-conceit,
- self-congratulation,
- self-esteem,
- self-glory,
- self-importance,
- self-love,
- self-opinion,
- self-satisfaction,
- smugness,
- swelled head,
- swellheadedness,
- vaingloriousness,
- vainglory,
- vainness,
- vanity
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conceit
verbchiefly dialect
Synonyms of conceit (Entry 2 of 2)
to form a mental picture of
- after a huge meal like that, I cannot conceit eating another thing for the rest of the day
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The first known use of conceit was in the 14th century
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