conceit

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[edit] Etymology

From Middle English, from Latin concipere (“to take in, conceive”), from con- (“together”) + capere (“to take”).

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[edit] Noun

conceit (countable and uncountable; plural conceits)

  1. (uncountable) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris.
  2. (obsolete) Something conceived in the mind; a conception; a notion; an idea; a thought.
  3. (countable) A novel or fanciful idea; a whim.
  4. (countable, rhetoric, literature) A device of analogy consisting of an extended metaphor.

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overly high self-esteem
idea, literary device

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[edit] References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Oxford-Paravia Concise - Dizionario Inglese-Italiano e Italiano-Inglese. Edited by Maria Cristina Bareggi. Torino: Paravia, 2003 (in collaboration with Oxford University Press). ISBN 8839551107. Online version here
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