conceit
Speech parts
1. conceit - Noun
2. conceit - Verb
Meaning
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.
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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
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.
Pride and conceit were the original sin of man.
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Where conceit and ignorance sit, grass will not grow again.
Conceit is the self satisfaction of a jackass.