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View synonyms for self-conceit
self-conceit
[ self-kuhn-seet, self- ]
noun
- an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
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Other Words From
- self-con·ceited adjective
- self-con·ceited·ly adverb
- self-con·ceited·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.
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The foundation of this self-conceit, on account of literary attainments, will be found to be extremely weak.
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Something luminous and startling may glow before our eyes and flatter our self-conceit with a hope that seems like a resolution.
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His self-conceit and his instinctive and fundamental atheism made him at least magnificently direct.
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At the beginning more than the usual amount of cooled glances, and exhortations to the suppression of self-conceit.
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