different between imagination vs conceited

English

Etymology

From Middle English ymaginacioun, from Old French imaginacion, ymaginacion, from Latin im?gin?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??mæd???ne???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

imagination (countable and uncountable, plural imaginations)

1. The image-making power of the mind; the act of mentally creating or reproducing an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images.
2. Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing.

3. Creativity; resourcefulness.

4. A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; something imagined.

   Synonyms: conception, notion, imagining

   • 1597, Francis Bacon, "Of Youth and Age", Essays:

     And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.

Synonyms

• (the representative power): creativity, fancy, imaginativeness, invention, inventiveness

Translations

Further reading

• imagination on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French imaginacion, borrowed from Latin im?gin?ti?, im?gin?ti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.ma.?i.na.sj??/

Noun

imagination f (plural imaginations)

1. (countable and uncountable) imagination

Related terms

• image
• imaginer
• imaginatif

Further reading

• “imagination” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Alternative forms

• ymagination

Etymology

From Old French imaginacion, borrowed from Latin im?gin?ti?.

Noun

imagination f (plural imaginations)

1. (countable and uncountable) imagination
2. thought; reflection; idea

Related terms

• imaginer

Descendants

• French: imagination

English

Alternative forms

• conceipted (obsolete)

Etymology 1

conceit +? -ed

Adjective

conceited (comparative more conceited, superlative most conceited)

1. Having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; vain and egotistical.
   • c. 1732, Jonathan Swift, Epistle to a Lady

     If you think me too conceited / Or to passion quickly heated.

   • 1692, Richard Bentley, A Confutation of Atheism

     Conceited of their own wit, and science, and politeness.

2. (rhetoric, literature) Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
3. (obsolete) Endowed with fancy or imagination.

   • He was […] pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit.

4. (obsolete) Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.

   • A conceited chair to sleep in.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:arrogant

Derived terms

• conceitedly
• conceitedness

Translations

Etymology 2

See conceit (verb)

Verb

conceited

1. simple past tense and past participle of conceit