Synonyms of conceits

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noun

plural of conceit

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as in metaphors

an elaborate or fanciful way of expressing something

the conceit that the crowd at the outdoor rock concert was a vast sea of people waving to the beat of the music

Synonyms & Similar Words

• metaphors
• figures of speech
• analogies
• devices
• circumlocutions
• similes
• euphemisms
• code words
• dead metaphors
• cranks
• mixed metaphors
• catachreses

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as in illusions

a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality

his dream of swimming in the Olympics is nothing more than a conceit

Synonyms & Similar Words

• illusions
• visions
• fantasies
• daydreams
• dreams
• delusions
• phantasies
• unrealities
• ideas
• chimeras
• phantasms
• hallucinations
• fictions
• fancies
• figments
• pipe dreams
• castles in the air
• castles in Spain
• nightmares
• mirages
• fantasms
• nonentities
• concoctions
• fables
• visualizations
• inventions
• fabrications
• utopias
• brainchildren
• ignes fatui
• will-o'-the-wisps
• cloudlands
• cloud-cuckoo-lands
• Shangri-las
• daymares

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• facts
• realities
• actualities

conceits

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verb

present tense third-person singular of conceit, chiefly dialect

as in imagines

to form a mental picture of

after a huge meal like that, I cannot conceit eating another thing for the rest of the day

Synonyms & Similar Words

• imagines
• envisions
• fantasies
• dreams
• visions
• sees
• pictures
• fancies
• features
• images
• conceives
• fantasizes
• visualizes
• envisages
• plans
• contemplates
• conjures (up)
• daydreams
• ideates
• muses
• reflects
• ruminates
• projects
• manufactures
• ponders
• invents
• reminisces
• prefigures
• concocts
• hallucinates
• stargazes
• meditates
• relives
• foresees
• fabricates
• re-creates
• makes up