" conceits "

1: an elaborate or fanciful way of expressing something;

  * e.g., " ... the conceit that the crowd at the outdoor rock concert was a vast sea of people waving to the beat of the music "

•  Synonyms : 

•  metaphors

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

2: a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality;

  * e.g., " ... his dream of swimming in the Olympics is nothing more than a conceit "

•  Synonyms : 

•  chimeras,

•  daydreams,

•  delusions,

•  dreams,

•  fancies,

•  fantasies,

•  figments,

•  hallucinations,

•  illusions,

•  nonentities,

•  phantasms,

•  pipe dreams,

•  unrealities,

•  visions

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: an elaborate or fanciful way of expressing something;

  * e.g., " ... the conceit that the crowd at the outdoor rock concert was a vast sea of people waving to the beat of the music "

•  Synonyms : 

•  metaphor

•  Antonyms : 

•  humbleness,

•  humility,

•  modesty

2: a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality;

  * e.g., " ... his dream of swimming in the Olympics is nothing more than a conceit "

•  Synonyms : 

•  chimera,

•  daydream,

•  delusion,

•  dream,

•  fancy,

•  fantasy,

•  figment,

•  hallucination,

•  illusion,

•  nonentity,

•  phantasm,

•  pipe dream,

•  unreality,

•  vision

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

3: an often unjustified feeling of being pleased with oneself or with one's situation or achievements;

  * e.g., " ... even though her novels are enormously popular, the writer is more prone to humility than to conceit "

•  Synonyms : 

•  amour propre,

•  bighead,

•  complacence,

•  complacency,

•  conceitedness,

•  ego,

•  egotism,

•  pomposity,

•  pompousness,

•  pride,

•  pridefulness,

•  self-admiration,

•  self-assumption,

•  self-conceit,

•  self-congratulation,

•  self-esteem,

•  self-glory,

•  self-importance,

•  self-love,

•  self-opinion,

•  self-satisfaction,

•  smugness,

•  swelled head,

•  swellheadedness,

•  vaingloriousness,

•  vainglory,

•  vainness,

•  vanity

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: an often unjustified feeling of being pleased with oneself or with one's situation or achievements;

  * e.g., " ... the movie star became a victim of her own self-conceit, having deluded herself into believing that she was as great as her press agent said she was "

•  Synonyms : 

•  amour propre,

•  bighead,

•  complacence,

•  complacency,

•  conceit,

•  conceitedness,

•  ego,

•  egotism,

•  pomposity,

•  pompousness,

•  pride,

•  pridefulness,

•  self-admiration,

•  self-assumption,

•  self-congratulation,

•  self-esteem,

•  self-glory,

•  self-importance,

•  self-love,

•  self-opinion,

•  self-satisfaction,

•  smugness,

•  swelled head,

•  swellheadedness,

•  vaingloriousness,

•  vainglory,

•  vainness,

•  vanity

•  Antonyms : 

•  humbleness,

•  humility,

•  modesty

1: to form a mental picture of;

  * e.g., " ... after a huge meal like that, I cannot conceit eating another thing for the rest of the day "

•  Synonyms : 

•  conceives,

•  conjures (up),

•  dreams,

•  envisages,

•  envisions,

•  fancies,

•  fantasies,

•  fantasizes,

•  features,

•  ideates,

•  images,

•  imagines,

•  pictures,

•  sees,

•  visions,

•  visualizes

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: to form a mental picture of;

  * e.g., " ... after a huge meal like that, I cannot conceit eating another thing for the rest of the day "

•  Synonyms : 

•  conceive,

•  conjure (up),

•  dream,

•  envisage,

•  envision,

•  fancy,

•  fantasize,

•  fantasy,

•  feature,

•  ideate,

•  image,

•  imagine,

•  picture,

•  see,

•  vision,

•  visualize

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)