conceits 1 of 2

noun

plural of conceit
1
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

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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

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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

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Recent Examples of conceits
Noun
This might actually be the first Yoshi platformer to not fully embrace a unique arts-and-crafts aesthetic in quite some time, considering how much Yoshi's Crafted World and Yoshi's Woolly World leaned fully into their papercraft and yarn conceits, respectively. — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 19 May 2026 Canet has to do some gymnastics to sell several of his conceits, and a few reveals land with the thud of too-easy convenience. — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026 In those earlier pictures, metaphysical conceits became visual and dramatic gambits as the filmmakers set out to colonize the vast interior worlds of, respectively, the mind and the spirit. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2026 One of Yellow Letters’s most interesting conceits is that German cities play Turkish ones throughout. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026 There’s something about those ideas that are big, silly, cinematic, surreal conceits that drew me in. — John Hopewell, Variety, 24 Nov. 2025 All the conceits of a true-crime film are there – the lead detective interviews, shaky images from police-cams, the salacious headlines, the nauseating crime scene photos, the TV news reports, teary interviews with friends and family. — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for conceits
  1. metaphors
  2. illusions
  3. imagines
  4. visions
  5. envisions
  6. fantasies
  7. dreams
  8. daydreams
Noun
  • In their desperation to sound unique, applicants often think too outside the box, trying out unusual formats, elaborate metaphors, or intentionally quirky topics in an effort to seem memorable.
    — Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Being the kind of person who adorns themselves compulsively opens you up to a slew of corny metaphors that, against your will, feel deeply relevant to you.
    — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of metaphors
Noun
  • Published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior, 95 people—Millennial and Gen Z men and women, all of whom had a history of using Instagram for an average of eight years—underwent a virtual reality experience called body illusions.
    — Nicole Karlis, Allure, 14 Aug. 2026
  • But Zinn’s illusions in the war, challenged already by lefties in the ranks and by seeing his friends killed, were permanently put to rest due to the bombing of Royan.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of illusions
Verb
  • The meanest part of the book is when Cusk imagines M at a fake literary salon being thrown by an unnamed fashion brand.
    — Hillary Busis, Vanity Fair, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Stephenson is a novelist whose books have shaped how the tech industry imagines its own future.
    — Mya Copeland, Variety, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of imagines
Noun
  • Her final film Sleepwalker, a psychological thriller about a mother who has fightening visions after losing her daughter in a car accident, was released in January.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Education is expected to be a central issue in those races, with candidates offering competing visions for improving student outcomes and strengthening public schools.
    — Jason Burns, The Conversation, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of visions
Verb
  • The company’s founder, Jeff Bezos, envisions building space habitats that could house billions as a solution to environmental catastrophes on Earth.
    — Marissa E. Yingling, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2026
  • SpaceX envisions Starmind and its other AI efforts as returning almost unimaginable profits down the road.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of envisions
Noun
  • Paul Anthony Kelly looks comfortable traversing both fantasies.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The Acton teen accused of killing his mother and younger brother after first working out his violent fantasies through chats with the AI bot ChatGPT was ordered held without bail.
    — Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of fantasies
Verb
  • Hailing from humble beginnings in Greenwood, South Carolina, his experiences with football have always been centered around doing the impossible – dreams his father put in his head at an early age.
    — Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2026
  • These rumors were never substantiated—but Harry did reference his mother’s California dreams in the 2022 Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan, per PopSugar.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of dreams
Noun
  • And amidst the momentum of reverie, there’s the line ‘Blink at the light and hope to survive,’ because daydreams in a fascist state can be scary too.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 23 June 2026
  • One-touch passing, feinting and ripping hard shots into a tattered net, each is super-charged by vivid daydreams of glory on the international stage.
    — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2026
Definition of daydreams

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