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conceitnoun an elaborate or fanciful way of expressing somethingthe conceit that the crowd at the outdoor rock concert was a vast sea of people waving to the beat of the music a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective realityhis dream of swimming in the Olympics is nothing more than a conceit chimera, daydream, delusion, dream, fancy, fantasy(also phantasy), figment, hallucination, illusion, nonentity, phantasm(also fantasm), pipe dream, unreality, vision ignis fatuus, mirage, will-o'-the-wispbrainchild, ideaconcoction, fable, fabrication, fiction, inventionenvisaging, imaging, visualizationcloud-cuckoo-land, cloudland, Shangri-la, utopiadaymare, nightmare castle in Spain, castle in the air actuality, fact, reality an often unjustified feeling of being pleased with oneself or with one's situation or achievementseven though her novels are enormously popular, the writer is more prone to humility than to conceit 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 assurance, confidence, self-assurance, self-confidenceself-righteousnessarrogance, disdainfulness, haughtiness, imperiousness, lordliness, self-assertion, snobbishness, superciliousness, superiorityhubris, overconfidence, presumptionpretense(or pretence), pretension, pretentiousnessegoism, self-centeredness, selfishnessself-pride, self-respect humbleness, humility, modesty diffidence, self-doubtself-disgust, self-hate, self-loathingaltruism, unselfishnessbashfulness, demureness, shyness, timidity, timidnesspassiveness, passivity conceitverbchiefly dialectto form a mental picture ofafter a huge meal like that, I cannot conceit eating another thing for the rest of the day conceive, conjure (up), dream, envisage, envision, fancy, fantasize, fantasy, feature, ideate, image, imagine, picture, see, vision, visualize daydream, stargazehallucinatere-create, reflect, relive, reminiscecontemplate, meditate, muse, ponder, ruminateconcoct, fabricate, invent, make up, manufacture, plan, projectforesee, prefigure in the 14th century |