concetto
/kənˈtʃɛtəʊ/Literary Criticism
noun
A fanciful, ingenious, or witty expression, metaphor, turn of thought, etc.; a conceit.
- Sometimes with specific reference to Italian literature..
Origin
Late 17th century; earliest use found in John Dunton (1659–1732), bookseller. From Italian concetto.
- conscientious objector
- conscientisation
- conscientise
- conscientization
- conscientize
- consciently
- conscionable
- conscionableness
- conscionably
- conscious
- consciously
- consciousness
- consciousness-expanding
- consciousness-raiser
- consciousness-raising
- conscribe
- conscript
- conscription
- conscriptional
- conscriptionist
- conscriptive
- consecrate
- consecration
- consecrator
- consecratory