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conceit

the trait of being unduly vain and conceited

an artistic device or effect; "the architect's brilliant conceit was to build the house around the tree"

a witty or ingenious turn of phrase; "he could always come up with some inspired off-the-wall conceit"

an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things

Synonyms:

• abstract thought,
• act of thought,
• affectation,
• aggressive self-confidence,
• amour propre,
• aphorism,
• apothegm,
• apprehension,
• arrogance,
• assume,
• assumption,
• assurance,
• attitude,
• bee,
• believe,
• bluster,
• boast,
• boastfulness,
• boasting,
• bombast,
• bon mot,
• boutade,
• brag,
• braggadocio,
• braggartism,
• bragging,
• brainstorm,
• brainwork,
• bravado,
• bright idea,
• bright thought,
• brilliant idea,
• bumptiousness,
• capriccio,
• caprice,
• cerebration,
• chestiness,
• climate of opinion,
• cockiness,
• cogitation,
• common belief,
• community sentiment,
• complacence,
• complacency,
• conceitedness,
• conceive,
• concept,
• conception,
• conceptualization,
• conclusion,
• consensus gentium,
• consequence,
• consideration,
• coxcombry,
• crack,
• crank,
• craze,
• crazy idea,
• creative thought,
• crotchet,
• dandyism,
• egoism,
• egotism,
• epigram,
• estimate,
• estimation,
• ethos,
• excogitation,
• expect,
• eye,
• face,
• facetiae,
• fad,
• fancy,
• fanfaronade,
• fantastic notion,
• fantasticism,
• fantasy,
• feeling,
• flash of wit,
• flight of fancy,
• flight of wit,
• flimflam,
• fool notion,
• foppery,
• foppishness,
• freak,
• freakish inspiration,
• fumes of fancy,
• gasconade,
• gasconism,
• gather,
• general belief,
• gibe,
• happy thought,
• harebrained idea,
• haughtiness,
• headwork,
• heavy thinking,
• heroics,
• humor,
• idea,
• ideation,
• image,
• imageless thought,
• imagination,
• imaginativeness,
• imagine,
• imagining,
• imago,
• immodesty,
• impression,
• independence,
• intellection,
• intellectual exercise,
• intellectual object,
• intellectualization,
• jactation,
• jactitation,
• judgment,
• kink,
• lights,
• maggot,
• megrim,
• memory-trace,
• mental act,
• mental image,
• mental impression,
• mental labor,
• mental process,
• mentation,
• mind,
• mot,
• mystique,
• narcissism,
• nasty crack,
• noesis,
• notion,
• observation,
• obtrusiveness,
• opinion,
• pardonable pride,
• passing fancy,
• perception,
• perkiness,
• persiflage,
• personal judgment,
• pertness,
• play of wit,
• pleasantry,
• point of view,
• pomposity,
• popular belief,
• position,
• posture,
• presumption,
• prevailing belief,
• pride,
• pridefulness,
• proudness,
• public belief,
• public opinion,
• puppyism,
• purse-pride,
• quip,
• quips and cranks,
• quirk,
• ratiocination,
• reaction,
• reasoning,
• recept,
• reckon,
• reflection,
• repartee,
• representation,
• retort,
• riposte,
• rodomontade,
• sally,
• scintillation,
• self-admiration,
• self-assertiveness,
• self-complacency,
• self-conceit,
• self-confidence,
• self-consequence,
• self-esteem,
• self-importance,
• self-love,
• self-reliance,
• self-respect,
• self-sufficiency,
• sentiment,
• side,
• sight,
• smart crack,
• smart saying,
• smugness,
• snappy comeback,
• stance,
• stiff-necked pride,
• stiff-neckedness,
• straight thinking,
• stroke of wit,
• stuffiness,
• suppose,
• supposition,
• swagger,
• swelled head,
• swelled-headedness,
• theory,
• think,
• thinking,
• thinking aloud,
• thinking out,
• thought,
• toy,
• turn of thought,
• vagary,
• vainglory,
• vainness,
• vanity,
• vaunt,
• vauntery,
• vaunting,
• view,
• way of thinking,
• whim,
• whim-wham,
• whimsy,
• wisecrack,
• witticism