1. conceit - Noun
2. conceit - Verb
That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception.
Faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension; as, a man of quick conceit.
Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
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.
An overweening idea of one's self; vanity.
To conceive; to imagine.
To form an idea; to think.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe smaller the mind the greater the conceit. Aesop
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. Willa Cather
Pride and conceit were the original sin of man. Alain-René Lesage
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. Biblical Proverb
Where conceit and ignorance sit, grass will not grow again. Turkish Proverb
Conceit is the self satisfaction of a jackass. American Proverb