English Dictionary

conceit

IPA（発音記号）

/kənˈsiːt/

名詞

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(obsolete) Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought. / The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension. / Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.

日本語の意味

心に生み出されたもの；概念；思考 / アイデアを生み出す能力；知覚・理解の力 / 理解の速さ；活発な想像力；豊かな空想

The scholar preserved a conceit from the manuscript, a peculiar image formed solely in the mind of its author.

学者はその写本から、著者の心の中だけで生まれた奇妙な観念を一つ残した。

意味（1）

(obsolete) Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought.

In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous.

意味（2）

The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.

a man of quick conceit

意味（3）

Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.

His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there is no more conceit in him than is in a mallet.

意味（4）

(obsolete) Opinion, (neutral) judgment.

意味（5）

(now rare, dialectal) Esteem, favourable opinion.

By him that me boughte, than quod Dysdayne, / I wonder sore he is in suche cenceyte.

意味（6）

(countable) A novel or fanciful idea; a whim.

On his way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit.

意味（7）

(countable, rhetoric, literature) An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.

The “cyberspace” conceit allows him to dramatize computer hacking in nontechnical language, although I wonder how much his somewhat florid descriptions of the “bodiless exultation of cyberspace” will mean to readers who have not experienced the illusion of power that punching the keyboard of even a dinky little word-processor can give.

意味（8）

(uncountable) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris.

Plum'd with conceit he calls aloud.

意味（9）

Design; pattern.

And yet I know not how conceit may rob the treasury of life when life itself yields to the theft;

conceits （ plural ）