What's Does Conceit Mean?

In modern literary criticism, more common with genre fiction, conceit often means an extended rhetorical device, summed up in a short phrase, that refers to a situation which either does not exist, or exists rarely, but is needed for the plot.

What is the meaning of conceited *?

1 : ingeniously contrived : fanciful … a person may hold to conceited fantasies which falsify a discouraging reality.— Derek Russell Davis. 2 : having or showing an excessively high opinion of oneself a brilliant but conceited musician.

What does conceit refer to?

noun. an excessively favorable opinion of one's own ability, importance, wit, etc. something that is conceived in the mind; a thought; idea: He jotted down the conceits of his idle hours. imagination; fancy.

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