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1. Feelings of excessive pride
   - amour propre, self-love, vanity
    
2. An elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things
    
3. A witty or ingenious turn of phrase
   "he could always come up with some inspired off-the-wall conceit"
    
4. An artistic device or effect
   "the architect's brilliant conceit was to build the house around the tree"
    
5. The trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride
   - conceitedness, vanity

Derived forms: conceits

Type of: device, figure, figure of speech, image, pride, pridefulness, trait, trope, turn of expression, turn of phrase

Encyclopedia: Conceit