conceit
/kən'si:t/
Definition
- Noun:
- Excessively high opinion of oneself; vanity: An inflated sense of one's own importance, abilities, or worth.
- A fanciful, ingenious, or witty thought or expression: A clever or elaborate metaphor, image, or turn of phrase, often used in literature or art.
- An artistic device, effect, or central theme: A fanciful or elaborate concept that forms the basis of a creative work.
Examples of Usage
- Noun (Vanity):
- His conceit was so great that he could not accept any criticism.
- She was a talented musician, but her success led to unbearable conceit.
- Noun (Witty/Artistic Idea):
- The poet's conceit compared his love to a compass, with his beloved as the fixed center.
- The novel's central conceit is that a man wakes up one day to find he is a giant insect.
Advanced Usage
- "In one's own conceit": According to one's own (often inflated) opinion.
- He was, in his own conceit, the finest painter in the city.
- "To be full of conceit": To be very vain or arrogant.
- The award made him full of conceit and difficult to work with.
- "To be out of conceit with": To be displeased with or have lost one's liking for something or someone.
- After the argument, she was quite out of conceit with her old friend.
Variants and Related Words
- Conceited (adj): Having or showing an excessively high opinion of oneself; vain.
- He became very conceited after his promotion.
- Self-conceit (n): Another term for excessive pride in oneself.
- His self-conceit blinded him to his own faults.
Synonyms
- Arrogance: The quality of being arrogant; overbearing pride.
- Egotism: The practice of talking and thinking about oneself excessively because of an undue sense of self-importance.
- Vanity: Excessive pride in or admiration of one's own appearance or achievements.
- Metaphor (for the literary sense): A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Related Phrases
- A flight of conceit: An instance of fanciful or extravagant imagination.
- The entire theory was dismissed as a mere flight of conceit.
Related Idioms
- To put someone out of conceit with something: To cause someone to dislike or lose interest in something.
- The terrible service put me out of conceit with that restaurant forever.
Noun
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the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride
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an artistic device or effect
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the architect's brilliant conceit was to build the house around the tree
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a witty or ingenious turn of phrase
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he could always come up with some inspired off-the-wall conceit
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an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things
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feelings of excessive pride
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