If you’re always boasting and can’t stop talking about yourself, you have that character flaw known as conceit. Your friends if you have any may also complain about your arrogance, vanity, and egotism.
That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception.
Noun
the trait of being vain and conceited
Noun
feelings of excessive pride
n.
That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind;
idea; thought; image; conception.
n.
Faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension;
as, a man of quick conceit.
n.
Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively
fancy.
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.
n.
An overweening idea of one's self; vanity.
n.
Design; pattern.
v. t.
To conceive; to imagine.
v. i.
To form an idea; to think.
Conceit
In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous.
A man wise in his own conceit.2.
How often, alas! did her eyes say unto me that they loved! and yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them.3.
His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there's more conceit in him than is in a mallet.4.
On his way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit.
Some to conceit alone their works confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at every line.
Tasso is full of conceits . . . which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse but contrary to its nature.5.
Plumed with conceit he calls aloud.6.
Conceit
The strong, by conceiting themselves weak, are therebly rendered as inactive . . . as if they really were so.
One of two bad ways you must conceit me, Either a coward or a flatterer.
Conceit
Those whose . . . vulgar apprehensions conceit but low of matrimonial purposes.
That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception.
To conceive; to imagine.
To form an idea; to think.
Usage Examples
Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
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Other Usage ExamplesYou have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
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