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Definition: SELF-CONCEIT |
SELF-CONCEITNoun1. Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments. |
Date "SELF-CONCEIT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Synonyms: SELF-CONCEITSynonyms: Egoism, Egotism, Vanity. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Vanity | Noun: vanity; conceit, conceitedness; self-conceit, self-complacency, self-confidence, self-sufficiency, self-esteem, self-love, self-approbation, self-praise, self-glorification, self-laudation, self-gratulation, self-applause, self-admiration; amour propre; selfishness. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SELF-CONCEIT |
| Etymologies containing "SELF-CONCEIT": Spalpeen. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit. |
Pascal | To repose our confidence in forms and ceremonies, is superstition; but not to submit to them is pride or self-conceit. |
William Hazlitt | We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Language | Translations for "SELF-CONCEIT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | netëkënaqësi. (various references) | |
Arabic | الغرور (rawness), العجب (astonishment, wonder). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | самомнение (conceit, egotism, importance, self esteem, self-importance, vanity). (various references) | |
Chinese | 自负 (Egotism, Egotistic, Egotistical, self-conceited, vain). (various references) | |
French | suffisance, vanité. (various references) | |
Greek | έπαρση (arrogance, conceit, haughtiness, overweening, overweeningness, pride), οίηση (conceit, priggishness, puffiness, stuffiness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | önhittség (cock-sureness, conceit, confidence, false pride, hubris, over confidence, pretension, priggishness, self-importance, superciliousness). (various references) | |
Italian | presunzione (conceit, confidence, overconfidence, presumption). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 慢心. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きょうし (being proud and self-willed, Chinese classics, dying insane, Edo-period type of humorous poem, lovely figure, pride, teacher), ま"し" (pride, the whole body), ゆいがどくそ" (Holy am I alone, vainglory), みしらず (neglecting one's health). (various references) | |
Korean | 자부심 (self-esteem). (various references) | |
Manx | moyrn (pride). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | elf-conceitsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vaidade (airs, conceit, concetto, flatulence, flatulency, presumption, pretension, pride, self-importance, vainglory, vanity, vaunt), presunção (airs, arrogance, assumption, assurance, conceit, concetto, coxcombry, daring, pragmatism, presumption, pretension, puppyism, self-assurance, self-importance, self-sufficiency, self-support, surmise, swagger, swank, vainglory, vanity), orgulho (bounce, haughtiness, lordliness, morgue, pride, vainglory). (various references) | |
Romanian | amor propriu, îngâmfare (conceit, false pride, haughtiness, perkiness, presumption, pride, superciliousness, vainglory, vanity), încântare de sine. (various references) | |
Russian | самомнение (big head, conceit, egotism, self-importance, swelled head). (various references) | |
Scottish | spailp (boldness, pride, self-confidence), féin-spéis (self-love). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | uobraženost (conceit, coxcombry, overweening, self-assumption). (various references) | |
Spanish | suficiencia (adequacy, sufficiency, superiority). (various references) | |
Swedish | egenkärlek (self-love). (various references) | |
Turkish | kendini beğenmişlik (egoism, egotrip, hoity toity, inflation, megalomania, pomposity, pride, self-importance, smugness). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | зарозумілість (arrogance, egotism, haughtiness, loftiness, lordliness, outrecuidance, self esteem, self-importance). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính tự phụ (bumptiousness, chestiness, cockiness, conceit, donnishness, presumption, presumptuousness, pretentiousness, pride, swelled head, swollen head), tính hợm mình (priggishness). (various references) | |
Welsh | hunan-dyb. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-f-i-l-n-o-s-t" | |
-2 letters: conflicts, elections, flections, scolecite, selection. | |
-3 letters: centiles, cineoles, conceits, confects, conflict, election, elenctic, felonies, felstone, flection, inflects, lections, licences, olefines, seicento, telsonic. | |
-4 letters: cenotes, centile, cineole, cineols, citoles, clients, coesite, conceit, concise, confect, confits, enclose, entices, entoils, etoiles, felines, felsite, inclose, infects, inflect, lectins, lection, lefties, licence, license, licente, liefest, lisente, notices, olefine. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-f-i-l-n-o-s-t" | |
+5 letters: electrifications. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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