
1) Amour propre 2) An artistic device or effect 3) Arrogance 4) Canadian historical novel 5) Condescension 6) Egotism 7) False pride 8) Fanciful notion 9) Fancy 10) Feelings of excessive pride 11) Haughtiness 12) Imagination 13) Literary concept 14) Overconfidence 15) Pride 16) Pridefulness 17) Self-importance
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1) Arrogance 2) Bighead 3) Boastfulness 4) Bovarism 5) Complacency 6) Ego 7) Egoism 8) Egotism 9) Id 10) Idea 11) Posturing 12) Pride 13) Self-love 14) Swelled head 15) Vainglory 16) Vanity
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In literature, a conceit is an extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic passage or entire poem. By juxtaposing, usurping and manipulating images and ideas in surprising ways, a conceit invites the reader into a more sophisticated understanding of an object of comparison. Extended conceits in English are part of the poetic idiom...
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a complicated intellectual metaphor. Petrarchan conceits drew on conventional sensory imagery popularized by the Italian poet Petrarch (1304-74). Metaphysical conceits were characterized by esoteric, abstract associations and surprising effects. John Donne and other so-called metaphysical poets used conceits in ways that fused the sensory and the a...
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• (n.) Faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension; as, a man of quick conceit. • (v. t.) To conceive; to imagine. • (n.) 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. • (n.) Quickness of apprehen...
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figure of speech, usually a simile or metaphor, that forms an extremely ingenious or fanciful parallel between apparently dissimilar or incongruous ... [2 related articles]
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In literature, an elaborate and, sometimes, far-fetched image, which extends a metaphor into as many layers of meaning as it will bear. Conceits thrive on relating apparently impossible objects...
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(also called a metaphysical conceit) An elaborate or unusual comparison--especially one using unlike
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A complicated intellectual metaphor. Petrarchan conceits drew on conventional sensory imagery popula
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Con·ceit' intransitive verb To form an idea; to think. [ Obsolete] « Those whose . . . vulgar apprehensions
conceit but low of matrimonial purposes.
Milton. »
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Con·ceit' noun [ Through French, from Latin
conceptus a conceiving, conception, from
concipere to conceive: confer Old French past participle nom.
conciez conceived. See
Conceive , and confer
Concept ,
Deceit .]
1. That which is conceived, imagined, ...
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Con·ceit' transitive verb To conceive; to imagine. [ Archaic] « The strong, by
conceiting themselves weak, are therebly rendered as inactive . . . as if they really were so.
South. » « One of two bad ways you must
conceit me, Either a coward or a flatterer.
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over-high opinion of too much prideÂ
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An elaborate and complicated metaphor. An early exponent of conceits was the 14th Century Italian poet Petrarch. The Petrarchan conceit was imitated by many Elizabethan poets including Shakespeare. Conceits were also used extensively by the metaphysical poets. John Donne famously compared two lovers to a pair of compasses in his poem A Valediction:...
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[
n] - the trait of being vain and conceited
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an elaborate comparison that teases the imagination to understand its logic.
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[Othello] (115) a thought or fancy.
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conceitedness noun the trait of being unduly vain and conceited
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In literature, an elaborate and, sometimes, far-fetched image, which extends a metaphor into as many layers of meaning as it will bear. Conceits thrive on relating apparently impossible objects or emotions. Shakespeare's Richard II attempts to compare his prison cell with the world. John Donne compares an icy garden to his frozen feelings a...
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an excessively favorable opinion of one's own ability, importance, wit, etc. · something that is conceived in the mind; a thought; idea: He jotted down the conceits of his idle hours. · imagination; fancy. · a fancy; whim; fanciful notion. · an elaborate, fanciful metaphor, esp. of a strained or far-fetched nature. · the...
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[ASVAB glossary] an artistic device or effect
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[Intelligent words] an artistic device or effect
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