conceitednessn.
/kənˈsiːtᵻdnᵻs/, U.S. /kənˈsidᵻdnᵻs/ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > [noun]
i-witc888
anyitOE
understandinga1050
ferec1175
skillwisenessa1200
quaintisec1300
brainc1325
cunning1340
reder1340
cunningnessa1400
sentencec1400
intelligence?1435
speculation1471
ingeny1474
cunningheadc1475
capacity1485
pregnancyc1487
dexterity1527
pregnance?1533
shift1542
wittiness1543
ingeniousness1555
conceitedness1576
pate1598
conceit1604
ingeniosity1607
dexterousness1622
talent1622
ingenuousness1628
solertiousnessa1649
ingenuity1651
partedness1654
brightness1655
solerty1656
prettiness1674
long head1694
long lega1705
cleverness1755
smartness1800
cleverality1828
brain power1832
knowledgeability1834
braininess1876
cerebrality1901
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > wit, wittiness > [noun]
wittiness1543
conceitedness1576
wit1578
conceit1593
mercury1653
saltiness1670
bel-esprit1806
1576 A. Golding tr. Lyfe Shatilion sig. Hvi The third [child].., whom his father loued moste intierly for his pleasant conceytednesse, being taken by the aduersaries, was tawght too beare Christes crosse.
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xii. 281 This conceitednes, which we cal reason.
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 537 The forwardness..and conceitedness of the Youth.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > fancy or fantastic notion > [noun] > quality of
conceitedness1589
fancifulness1667
maggot1701
visionarinessc1806
fantasticalness1847
viewiness1850
1589 J. Throckmorton M. Some laid Open in his Coulers 14 Well (howsoeuer in discretion or otherwise, in a kind of conceitednesse, he may happely overshut him selfe) you tel me that questionlesse he is learned.
1669 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa (1671) ii. i. 4 All proceeded from conceitedness and fancy.
1708 T. Smith in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 24 July II. 121 I..pityed his weaknes and conceitednes, in leaving at his death..a considerable summe of mony to the Society of Poets.
3. The fact or quality of being conceited; self-conceit.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > self-esteem > conceit > [noun]
opinionc1425
wind1484
vokea1508
conceit1567
self-weening1570
cockishness1573
weening1575
self-conceit1576
self-opinion1593
conceitedness1595
self-conceitednessa1602
self-opinionatedness1668
self-opinionativeness1743
egotism1800
swell-head1845
big-head1850
big-headedness1850
self-opinionedness1879
swollen head1898
swelled-headedness1907
ikeyness1911
1595 T. Playfere Most Excellent Serm. 23. Chapter Luke sig. F5v Paul his heart being pricked, and bleeding continually for his sinnes, was freed of all conceitednes of all vanitie and pride.
1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 335 We see what a wide gate into hell, Conceitednesse is.
1665 S. Pepys Diary 23 Oct. (1972) VI. 273 I am troubled with the much talk and conceitedness of Mrs. Williams.
1710 in G. Lamoine Charges to Grand Jury (1992) 75 Our Conceitedness our Ambition & our Selfish designs distract our affairs at home.
1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 157 Were Conceitedness, Vanity, and Pride, to take hold of my frail Heart!
1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris x. 200 This pragmatical conceitedness, which converts courtesy into insult.
1879 Unitarian Rev. Nov. 487 The conceitedness of children is a most striking feature of modern society.
1919 F. Swinnerton September ii. i. 114 Cherry might.., from a kind of base conceitedness, wreck her own happiness.
2011 Church Times 30 Sept. 2/4 So many of the clerics that I've met..are people of such extra-ordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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