Conceit

Noun

 * 1)  Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris.
 * 2)  Something conceived in the mind; a conception; a notion; an idea; a thought.
 * 3)  A novel or fanciful idea; a whim.
 * 4)  A device of analogy consisting of an extended metaphor.

Adjectives for Conceit
devastating; quaint; mere; whimsical; colossal; comical; solemn; peculiar; lessening; sanguine; keen; erroneous; piteous; stupid; rational; boyish; staple; enigmatic; graceful; profound; doubtful; partial; presumptuous; lively; ingenious; gallant; noble; true; innocent; earthy; gross; fantastic; literary; passing; imperious; self-centered; melancholy; artificial;  sickening; modest; fabulous; false; platonic; vain; immense.

Verbs for Conceit
bare—; cloud with—; deplore—; devour with—; display—; fill with—; humor—; puff up with—; rebuke—; shatter—; soak in—; swallow up by—; tickle—; wallow in—; ween—; —disgusts; —exaggerates; —inflames; —overestimates; —overvalues; —prejudices; —robs; —twists.

Derived terms
conceited; conceitedly; conceitedness

Thesaurus
arrogance, assume, assumption, assurance, attitude, bee, believe, bluster, boast, boastfulness, boasting, bombast, bon mot, boutade, brag, braggadocio, braggartism, bragging, brainstorm, brainwork, bravado, bright idea, bright thought, brilliant idea, bumptiousness, capriccio, caprice, cerebration, chestiness, climate of opinion, cockiness, cogitation, common belief, community sentiment, complacence, complacency, conceitedness, conceive, concept, conception, conceptualization, conclusion, consensus gentium, consequence, consideration, coxcombry, crack, crank, craze, crazy idea, creative thought, crotchet, dandyism, egoism, egotism, epigram, estimate, estimation, ethos, excogitation, expect, eye, face, facetiae, fad, fancy, fanfaronade, fantastic notion, fantasticism, fantasy, feeling, flash of wit, flight of fancy, flight of wit, flimflam, fool notion, foppery, foppishness, freak, freakish inspiration, fumes of fancy, gasconade, gasconism, gather, general belief, gibe, happy thought, harebrained idea, haughtiness, headwork, heavy thinking, heroics, humor, idea, ideation, image, imageless thought, imagination, imaginativeness, imagine, imagining, imago, immodesty, impression, independence, intellection, intellectual exercise, intellectual object, intellectualization, jactation, jactitation, judgment, kink, lights, maggot, megrim, memory-trace, mental act, mental image, mental impression, mental labor, mental process, mentation, mind, mot, mystique, narcissism, nasty crack, noesis, notion, observation, obtrusiveness, opinion, pardonable pride, passing fancy, perception, perkiness, persiflage, personal judgment, pertness, play of wit, pleasantry, point of view, pomposity, popular belief, position, posture, presumption, prevailing belief, pride, pridefulness, proudness, public belief, public opinion, puppyism, purse-pride, quip, quips and cranks, quirk, ratiocination, reaction, reasoning, recept, reckon, reflection, repartee, representation, retort, riposte, rodomontade, sally, scintillation, self-admiration, self-assertiveness, self-complacency, self-conceit, self-confidence, self-consequence, self-esteem, self-importance, self-love, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, sentiment, side, sight, smart crack, smart saying, smugness, snappy comeback, stance, stiff-necked pride, stiff-neckedness, straight thinking, stroke of wit, stuffiness, suppose, supposition, swagger, swelled head, swelled-headedness, theory, think, thinking, thinking aloud, thinking out, thought, toy, turn of thought, vagary, vainglory, vainness, vanity, vaunt, vauntery, vaunting, view, way of thinking, whim, whim-wham, whimsy, wisecrack, witticism

Etymology
From <  concipere: < con-: + capere:.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: самонадеяност
 * Chinese: 自负
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Hebrew: התנפחות
 * Hungarian: beképzeltség
 * Italian: presunzione, (vain pride) vanità


 * Japanese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: самомнение, тщеславие , (vain pride) гонор
 * Spanish: engreimiento, vanidad
 * Swedish:


 * Hungarian: elképzelés


 * Italian: concetto