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View synonyms for self-conceit

self-conceit

[ self-kuhn-seet, self- ]

noun

  1. an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.


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Other Words From

  • self-con·ceited adjective
  • self-con·ceited·ly adverb
  • self-con·ceited·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of self-conceit1

First recorded in 1580–90
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Example Sentences

Her silent and grim scorn would have crushed his self-conceit to a miserable, hopeless pulp.

The foundation of this self-conceit, on account of literary attainments, will be found to be extremely weak.

Something luminous and startling may glow before our eyes and flatter our self-conceit with a hope that seems like a resolution.

His self-conceit and his instinctive and fundamental atheism made him at least magnificently direct.

At the beginning more than the usual amount of cooled glances, and exhortations to the suppression of self-conceit.

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