self-conceit
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- self-conceipt (obsolete)
Etymology
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Noun
[edit]self-conceit (countable and uncountable, plural self-conceits)
- Conceit of oneself; an overweening opinion of one's own powers or endowments; vanity.
Translations
[edit]vanity
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References
[edit]- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “self-conceit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “self-conceit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Categories:
- English terms prefixed with self-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *swé
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *ḱe
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kap- (seize)
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *ḱóm
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