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1. the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride (同)conceitedness, vanity
2. a witty or ingenious turn of phrase; "he could always come up with some inspired off-the-wall conceit"
3. an artistic device or effect; "the architects brilliant conceit was to build the house around the tree"
4. an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things
5. with conceit; in a conceited manner; "he always acts so conceitedly!" (同)self-conceitedly
6. characteristic of false pride; having an exaggerated sense of self-importance; "a conceited fool"; "an attitude of self-conceited arrogance"; "an egotistical disregard of others"; "so swollen by victory that he was unfit for normal duty"; "growing ever more swollen-headed and arbitrary"; "vain about her clothes" (同)egotistic, egotistical, self-conceited, swollen, swollen-headed, vain

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1. 〈U〉『うぬぼれ』,自負心 / 〈C〉奇想,気まぐれ,思いつき
2. うぬぼれの強い

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For other uses, see Conceit (disambiguation).

In literature, a conceit is an extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic passage or entire poem. By juxtaposing, usurping and manipulating images and ideas in surprising ways, a conceit invites the reader into a more sophisticated understanding of an object of comparison. Extended conceits in English are part of the poetic idiom of Mannerism, during the later sixteenth and early seventeenth century.

Metaphysical conceit

The flowers are beginning their masquerade as people. Sir Jonquil begins the fun. (Walter Crane, 1899)

In English literature the term is generally associated with the 17th century metaphysical poets, an extension of contemporary usage. In the metaphysical conceit, metaphors have a much more purely conceptual, and thus tenuous, relationship between the things being compared. Helen Gardner observed that "a conceit is a comparison whose ingenuity is more striking than its justness" and that "a comparison becomes a conceit when we are made to concede likeness while being strongly conscious of unlikeness." An example of the latter would be George Herbert's "Praise (3)", in which the generosity of God is compared to a bottle which ("As we have boxes for the poor") will take in an infinite amount of the speaker's tears.

An often-cited example of the metaphysical conceit is the metaphor from John Donne's "The Flea", in which a flea that bites both the speaker and his lover becomes a conceit arguing that his lover has no reason to deny him sexually, although they are not married:

   Oh stay! three lives in one flea spare
Where we almost, nay more than married are.
   This flea is you and I, and this
Our marriage-bed and marriage-temple is.

When Sir Philip Sidney begins a sonnet with the conventional idiomatic expression "My true-love hath my heart and I have his", but then takes the metaphor literally and teases out a number of literal possibilities and extravagantly playful conceptions in the exchange of hearts, the result is a fully formed conceit.

Petrarchan conceit

The Petrarchan conceit, used in love poetry, exploits a particular set of images for comparisons with the despairing lover and his unpitying but idolized mistress. For instance, the lover is a ship on a stormy sea, and his mistress "a cloud of dark disdain"; or else the lady is a sun whose beauty and virtue shine on her lover from a distance.

The paradoxical pain and pleasure of lovesickness is often described using oxymoron, for instance uniting peace and war, burning and freezing, and so forth. But images which were novel in the sonnets of Petrarch became clichés in the poetry of later imitators. Romeo uses hackneyed Petrarchan conceits when describing his love for Rosaline as "bright smoke, cold fire, sick health".

Etymology

In the Renaissance, the term (which is related to the word concept) indicated any particularly fanciful expression of wit, and was later used pejoratively of outlandish poetic metaphors.

Recent literary critics have used the term to mean simply the style of extended and heightened metaphor common in the Renaissance and particularly in the 17th century, without any particular indication of value. Within this critical sense, the Princeton Encyclopedia makes a distinction between two kinds of conceits: the Metaphysical conceit, described above, and the Petrarchan conceit. In the latter, human experiences are described in terms of an outsized metaphor (a kind of metaphorical hyperbole), like the stock comparison of eyes to the sun, which Shakespeare makes light of in his sonnet 130: "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun."

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References

• Lakoff, George and Mark Turner. More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor. Princeton, NJ: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
• Preminger, Alex and T.V.F. Brogan. The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.

External links

• George Herbert, "Praise (3)"
• Shakespeare's Sonnet 130, from Wikisource.

English Journal

• "They just happened": the curious case of the unplanned baby, Italian low fertility, and the "end" of rationality.

• Krause EL.SourceDepartment of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA.
• Medical anthropology quarterly.Med Anthropol Q.2012 Sep;26(3):361-82.
• Even in a country with super-low fertility rates, at least one-quarter of all babies are unplanned. The finding puzzles policymakers. This article uses Italy's "curious case" as a jumping-off point to expose assumptions about rationality. It offers a model to dismantle the "conceit" of rationality,
• PMID 23259348

• The conceit of curriculum.

• Whitehead C, Kuper A, Webster F.
• Medical education.Med Educ.2012 Jun;46(6):534-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2012.04245.x.
• PMID 22626041

• Revalidating Sherlock Holmes for a role in medical education.

• Levine D.SourcePeninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Plymouth. david.levine@pms.ac.uk
• Clinical medicine (London, England).Clin Med.2012 Apr;12(2):146-9.
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle endowed Sherlock Holmes with extraordinary skills that Dr Watson and others found incomprehensible until Holmes gave explanations, often in the form of memorable maxims and short monologues. Intentionally or not, Doyle left us crime-solving precepts that still inform aspects o
• PMID 22586790

• Is pride a prosocial emotion? Interpersonal effects of authentic and hubristic pride.

• Wubben MJ, De Cremer D, van Dijk E.SourceErasmus Centre of Behavioural Ethics, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. MWubben@rsm.nl
• Cognition & emotion.Cogn Emot.2012;26(6):1084-97. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2011.646956. Epub 2012 Apr 23.
• Pride is associated with both prosocial and antisocial behaviour. Do others also infer such behaviours when pride is expressed and does this affect their own prosocial behaviour We expected that authentic pride (i.e., confidence, accomplishment) would signal and elicit more prosocial behaviour than
• PMID 22519855

Japanese Journal

• F.スコット・フィッツジェラルドの『グレート・ギャツビー』における〈コンプリシット・コンシート〉のミメティック・ミスプリジョン(第2部)クローゼットで見える

• Yasui Michael
• 人文学報 = The Journal of social sciences and humanities (479), 47-55, 2013-03
• NAID 40019890670

• リスクは慢心に潜む

• 西川 康二
• 安全工学 51(5), 345, 2012-10-15
• NAID 10031117536

• クローゼットで静かに : F・スコット・フィッツジェラルド『グレート・ギャツビー』における〈コンプリシット・コンシート〉のミメッティック・ミスプリジョン(第1部)

• Yasui Michael
• 人文学報 (464), 45-52, 2012-03
• NAID 40019568768

• 過去のいじめ体験が青年期に及ぼす影響-体験の時期と発達の関連

• 野中 公子,永田 俊明
• 九州看護福祉大学紀要 12(1), 115-124, 2012-03
• … Because I torment it, and it can predict the experience to be related to the adaptation state that is in the latter half of youth in the later life development, it is to examine current self-conceit feelings and friend from the viewpoint of development the purpose of this study clarifying the time of the bullying experience and relations with the next influence based on the inventory survey for university students more it-affiliated what kind of influence have. …
• NAID 110008917883

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