Conceit

That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception.

Faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension; as, a man of quick conceit.

Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.

A fanciful, odd, or extravagant notion; a quant fancy; an unnatural or affected conception; a witty thought or turn of expression; a fanciful device; a whim; a quip.

An overweening idea of one's self; vanity.

Design; pattern.

To conceive; to imagine.

To form an idea; to think.

an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things

feelings of excessive pride