self-conceit

[ self-kuhn-seet, self- ]

noun

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

Other Words From

• self-con·ceited adjective
• self-con·ceited·ly adverb
• self-con·ceited·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of self-conceit¹

First recorded in 1580–90

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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Related Words

• arrogance