Conceit
Conceit noun - An often unjustified feeling of being pleased with oneself or with one's situation or achievements.
Usage example: even though her novels are enormously popular, the writer is more prone to insecurity than to conceit
Vaingloriousness and conceit are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Vaingloriousness" instead a noun "Conceit".
Vaingloriousness
Vaingloriousness noun - An often unjustified feeling of being pleased with oneself or with one's situation or achievements.
Usage example: a tiresome vaingloriousness that manifested itself in the old general's incessant boasting about his battlefield victories
Conceit and vaingloriousness are semantically related. You can use "Conceit" instead a noun "Vaingloriousness".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- pride and conceit
- pride and vaingloriousness
- pretension and conceit
- pretension and vaingloriousness
- presumption and conceit
- presumption and vaingloriousness
- ostentation and conceit
- ostentation and vaingloriousness
- self-love and conceit
- self-love and vaingloriousness
- egotism and conceit
- egotism and vaingloriousness
- vainglory and conceit
- vainglory and vaingloriousness
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Vaingloriousness and Conceit. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/conceit/vaingloriousness
Conceit & Vaingloriousness. N.p., 2016. Web. 28 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/conceit/vaingloriousness>.
Vaingloriousness or Conceit. 2016. Accessed July 28, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/conceit/vaingloriousness.
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