self-conceit

English

Alternative forms

• self-conceipt (obsolete)

Etymology

From self- +‎ conceit.

Noun

self-conceit (countable and uncountable, plural self-conceits)

1. Conceit of oneself; an overweening opinion of one's own powers or endowments; vanity.

Translations

vanity

French: autosuffisance (fr) f Hungarian: beképzeltség (hu), önhittség (hu), önelégültség (hu), önteltség (hu) Malayalam: അഹംഭാവം (ml) (ahambhāvaṁ) Polish: zarozumiałość (pl) f Serbo-Croatian: samoobožavanje

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “self-conceit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “self-conceit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.