Conceited vs Artificial - What's the difference?
conceited | artificial |
Having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; vain and egotistical.
* Jonathan Swift
* Bentley
(rhetoric, literature) Having an ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
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(obsolete) Endowed with fancy or imagination.
* Knolles
(obsolete) Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.
* Evelyn
(conceit)
Man-made; of artifice.
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False, misleading.
Unnatural.
As adjectives the difference between conceited and artificial
is that conceited is having an excessively favorable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc; vain and egotistical while artificial is man-made; of artifice.As a verb conceited
is (conceit).conceited
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(en adjective)- If you think me too conceited / Or to passion quickly heated.
- Conceited of their own wit, science, and politeness.
- He was pleasantly conceited , and sharp of wit.
- A conceited chair to sleep in.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* conceitedly * conceitednessEtymology 2
See (conceit) (verb)Verb
(head)artificial
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.}}