Conceit vs Ego - What's the difference?
conceit | ego |
(obsolete) Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought.
* Francis Bacon
* Bible, Proverbs xxvi. 12
The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.
* Sir Philip Sidney
Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Opinion, (neutral) judgment.
* 1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Courte :
(countable) A novel or fanciful idea; a whim.
* L'Estrange
* Alexander Pope
* Dryden
(countable, rhetoric, literature) An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
(uncountable) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris.
* Cotton
Design; pattern.
(obsolete) To form an idea; to think.
* 1643 : ,
(obsolete) To conceive.
* South
* Shakespeare
(senseid)the self, especially with a sense of self-importance
* 1998 ,
(psychology, Freudian) the most central part of the mind, which mediates with one's surroundings
* 1954 , Calvin S. Hall, “A Primer of Freudian Psychology”
As nouns the difference between conceit and ego
is that conceit is something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought while ego is (the self)the self, especially with a sense of self-importance.As a verb conceit
is to form an idea; to think.conceit
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
- In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous.
- a man wise in his own conceit
- a man of quick conceit
- How often, alas! did her eyes say unto me that they loved! and yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them.
- His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there is no more conceit in him than is in a mallet.
- By him that me boughte, than quod Dysdayne, / I wonder sore he is in suche cenceyte .
- On his way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit .
- Some to conceit alone their works confine, / And glittering thoughts struck out at every line.
- Tasso is full of conceits which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse but contrary to its nature.
- Plumed with conceit he calls aloud.
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* conceited * conceitedly * conceitedness * self-conceitVerb
(en verb)The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
- Those whose vulgar apprehensions conceit but low of matrimonial purposes.
- The strong, by conceiting themselves weak, are therebly rendered as inactive as if they really were so.
- One of two bad ways you must conceit me, / Either a coward or a flatterer.
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Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia ego)- When every thought absorbs your attention completely, when you are so identified with the voice in your head and the emotions that accompany it that you lose yourself in every thought and every emotion, then you are totally identified with form and therefore in the grip of ego'. ' Ego is a conglomeration of recurring thought forms and conditioned mental-emotional patterns that are invested with a sense of I, a sense of self.
- In the well adjusted person the ego is the executive of the personality and is governed by the reality principle.