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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
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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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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
John Hopewell, Variety, 24 Nov. 2025
But even her most impish conceits are undergirded by a fundamental conviction, a belief in the power of art to wake the dead.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2025
One of Weapons’ conceits is its chapter structure centering on particular characters, and sources say that Cregger actually had a chapter focused on Gladys and some of her backstory.
—Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 22 Aug. 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
Noun
There’s something about those ideas that are big, silly, cinematic, surreal conceits that drew me in.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for conceits
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Bird and visitors are, for Urbano, ideal metaphors for the citizens of Utopia, a place beyond reach yet accessible through the uchronic resources of poetry and symbol.—
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The year 2025 was more tumultuous than any silly football game and its accompanying overwrought metaphors.—
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Yet the Administration’s 28-point plan for Ukraine and the NSS should end any illusions that this approach is working.—
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With Saturn conjunct Neptune in your seventh house, illusions fade and truth becomes unavoidable.—
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The company imagines intelligent appliances operating as agents that manage daily routines and return time to users.—
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In an episode where Milo and Zach try to help Melissa conquer her fear of roller coasters, the roller coaster Melissa imagines is the same one Phinneas and Ferb made in their backyard.—
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House and Senate lawmakers’ conflicting visions for providing systemic property tax relief fell apart in 2025 as each chamber shot down the other’s constitutional amendment proposal.—
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Who knows what visions may lie ahead?—
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Proposed by the Laguna Ocean Foundation, the project envisions restoring 9 acres of the marshy area and sand berm at the mouth of Aliso Creek, improving the link between the ocean and the nearby canyons and wildlands area.—
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The front area benefits from natural light, and Arakelyan envisions that as a space for content creators.—
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And, once again, fantasies of surgical strikes are yielding to messy realities.—
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Ride a Luge Live out your Milan 2026 fantasies at Michigan's Muskegon Luge Adventure Sports Park.—
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David dreams that Hale will mentor him and goes so far as to tell people that Hale is his mentor.—
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For a party that dreams of a single-payer, socialist healthcare system where taxpayers fund every expense, this is perhaps unsurprising.—
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Alas, my daydreams about adapting an essay from my collection into a limited series TV show turned out to be just that.—
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What about those perfect days and the daydreams that had sustained us?—
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“Conceits.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/conceits. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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