Definition for Conceit:

• Faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension; as, a man of quick conceit.

Synonyms for Conceit:

• n.

  •
  • metaphysical,
  • metric,
  • meter.
  •
  • vainglory,
  • ego.
  •
  • caprice,
  • vagary,
  • impulse.
  •
  • take to.
  •amour propre (noun)
  • good opinion oneself.
  •arrogance (noun)
  • high handednesses,
  • overbearances,
  • highhandednesses,
  • conceitednesses,
  • self importance,
  • scornfulnesses,
  • high handedness,
  • selfimportance,
  • high-handednesses,
  • imperiousnesses,
  • smugnesses,
  • contemptuousnesses,
  • disdainfulnesses.
  •assumption (noun)
  • cockinesses.
  •communication (noun)
  • conceit.
  •conceit (noun)
  • vanity,
  • self-love.
  •concept (noun)
  • hypo-thesis,
  • brain waves,
  • big ideas,
  • fool notions,
  • hypo thesis.
  •conception (noun)
  • ex-positions,
  • ex-planations,
  • ex-position,
  • de sign,
  • philosophizings,
  • re presentation,
  • de-liberating,
  • speculatings,
  • mental grasps,
  • de liberating,
  • envisagings,
  • communings,
  • ex planation,
  • meditatings,
  • de signs,
  • ex planations,
  • considerings,
  • re-presentations,
  • fancyings,
  • deliberatings,
  • cogitatings,
  • re presentations,
  • de-signs,
  • concentratings,
  • de-sign.
  •craze (noun)
  • fad.
  •egoism/egotism (noun)
  • boastfulnesses,
  • braggings,
  • self worship,
  • over confidence,
  • selfworships,
  • selfworship,
  • vauntings,
  • self admirations,
  • self interest,
  • selfinterests,
  • self admiration,
  • selfconfidence,
  • selfadmirations,
  • swellheadednesses,
  • self-worships,
  • selfinterest,
  • self-admirations,
  • megalomanias,
  • self worships,
  • selfregard,
  • self regard,
  • selfadmiration,
  • selfpossession,
  • over-confidences,
  • self confidence,
  • self-interests,
  • self interests,
  • preoccupation with selves,
  • over confidences,
  • self possession.
  •egotism (noun)
  • self-importance,
  • Outrecuidance,
  • swagger,
  • complacence,
  • Self-exaltation,
  • Self-conceit,
  • pomposity,
  • snottiness,
  • stuffiness,
  • swelled head,
  • amour-propre,
  • complacency,
  • consequence.
  •ego trip (noun)
  • self-praise,
  • self-aggrandizement.
  •fad (noun)
  • INS,
  • passing fancy,
  • in thing,
  • latest word,
  • newest wrinkle,
  • New Look.
  •fancy (noun)
  • de sires,
  • fools paradise,
  • weakness fors,
  • de-sire,
  • cup tea,
  • fool paradise,
  • velleities,
  • de sire,
  • de-sires,
  • drutherses.
  •figure of speech (noun)
  • aposiopesis,
  • manner of speaking,
  • adumbration,
  • oxymoron,
  • tropes,
  • Tropology,
  • synecdoche,
  • communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device,
  • apostrophes,
  • metonymy,
  • proteron,
  • onomatopoeia,
  • metonymies,
  • oxymora,
  • malapropism,
  • echoism,
  • alliterations,
  • way of speaking,
  • turn of phrase,
  • litotes,
  • onomatopoeias,
  • Ellipses,
  • Asyndeton,
  • ellipsis,
  • anaphora,
  • apostrophe,
  • malapropisms,
  • trope,
  • antistrophe.
  •gall (noun)
  • gall,
  • sauciness,
  • crust cynicism,
  • spite.
  •haughtiness (noun)
  • superbities,
  • snobbishnesses.
  •humor (noun)
  • frame mind,
  • dis positions,
  • dis position,
  • dis-position,
  • dis-positions.
  •idea (noun)
  • concept.
  •perception (noun)
  • realizings,
  • re cognition,
  • apprehendings,
  • re cognitions,
  • re-cognition.
  •pretension (noun)
  • showboats,
  • showboat,
  • hypocrisy,
  • showiness,
  • phonies.
  •pretentiousness (noun)
  • grandiosity,
  • grandioseness,
  • pompousness.
  •pride (noun)
  • condescension,
  • assurance,
  • huffiness,
  • ostentation,
  • confidence,
  • self-glory,
  • grandness,
  • high-and-mightiness.
  •pun (noun)
  • PUNS,
  • Calembour,
  • paronomasia,
  • Equivoque,
  • double meaning.
  •rage (noun)
  • in spots,
  • in-spot,
  • in-thing,
  • latest wrinkle,
  • up to the minute,
  • NOWS.
  •ridiculousness (noun)
  • humorousness,
  • zaniness,
  • wittiness.
  •seed (noun)
  • rudiment,
  • sperms,
  • sperm,
  • spore,
  • corn,
  • ovules,
  • semen,
  • ovule,
  • Corns,
  • Spores.
  •self-absorption (noun)
  • selfabsorption,
  • self absorption.
  •self-centeredness (noun)
  • selfcenteredness,
  • self centeredness.
  •self-importance (noun)
  • egotism.
  •self-involvement (noun)
  • selfinvolvement,
  • self involvement.
  •self-respect/self-esteem (noun)
  • faith oneself,
  • self-respects,
  • self respect,
  • self assurance,
  • selfrespect,
  • selfcontent,
  • self-contents,
  • self contents,
  • self content,
  • amourpropre,
  • selfcontents,
  • selfassurance.
  •self-satisfaction (noun)
  • self-approbation,
  • self-pleasure,
  • self-approval.
  •vainglory (noun)
  • Strutting.
  •vanity (noun)
  • self-flattery,
  • bragging,
  • braggadocio,
  • superficiality,
  • egocentricity.
  •whim (noun)
  • passing thoughts.

• Other synonyms:

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  • chauvinism,
  • bard,
  • o'er,
  • rhyme,
  • poet laureate,
  • iambic pentameter,
  • metre,
  • poetry,
  • metrical,
  • superiority,
  • snobbery,
  • prosody,
  • poetic,
  • Boutade,
  • alliteration,
  • scansion,
  • poet,
  • poesy.
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  • fantasy,
  • whimsy,
  • joke.
  •
  • like,
  • bee.
  •
  • scan.
  •boldness
  • immodesty.

Paraphrases for Conceit:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    vanity.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    arrogance, presumption.

Antonyms for Conceit:

• n.

  • egotism
    meekness, shyness, humility, self-consciousness, unself-confidence, modesty, timidity.
  • Other antonyms:
    bashfulness, fact, unobtrusiveness, self-distrust, self-doubt, deference, actuality, passiveness, altruism, unselfishness, timidness, passivity, reality, self-disgust, unostentatiousness.

Conceit Sentence Examples:

• " Well," said Stanmer, " I think this, at any rate - that you take an extraordinary responsibility in trying to put a man out of conceit of a woman who, as he believes, may make him very happy."

• Now Mr. Bennet knew very well how Arethusa felt about him, and this without any real conceit on his part.

Hyponym for Conceit:

• n.

  • communication
    figure, trope, device, image, turn of expression, figure of speech, turn of phrase.
  • feeling
    pridefulness, pride.