Her conceit was obvious to everyone in the room.
Conceit is when someone thinks very highly of himself or herself. For example, if someone goes around talking about how intelligent he is, that is conceit. It's also conceit when someone thinks that nobody else is as good as she is at something.
You are very narcissistic. I can see the conceit in your voice!
I went through my conceits while I was alone.
Conceit: In John Donne's poem "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," he uses a conceit comparing two lovers to the legs of a compass, highlighting the strength and stability of their connection despite physical separation. Paradox: One example of a paradox is the statement "less is more," which seems contradictory but suggests that simplicity can be more effective or powerful than complexity.
Here was an opportunity of taking the conceit out of him.
Conceit - novel - was created in 2007.
The Fatal Conceit was created in 1988.
one example is in act 2 scene 2:"…O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!/Is it not monstrous that this player here,/But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,/Could force his soul so to his own conceit…"
Conceit is a noun. The adjective form is 'conceited'.
Conceit - novel - has 402 pages.
The Fatal Conceit has 194 pages.
You can add the suffix "-ful" to turn the word "conceit" into "conceitful," which means full of conceit or vanity.