Conceited

Excessively impressed with personal abilities, appearance, or importance.

Conceited means: Excessively impressed with personal abilities, appearance, or importance. Behavior in practice: Seeks admiration, talks about achievements disproportionately, and gives insufficient recognition to other people’s strengths or contributions. Context for Conceited: The tendency is best understood through repeated behavior across situations, because intention, intensity, timing, and consequences can change how it is experienced. Similar traits for Conceited: arrogant, vain, haughty — related qualities that overlap with Conceited while differing in motive, behavior, or intensity. Opposite traits for Conceited: humble, modest, self-effacing — useful contrasts showing how behavior or judgment can move in a different direction from Conceited. When Conceited becomes frequent or intense, it can weaken trust, judgment, cooperation, or well-being; one isolated episode, however, is not enough to define a person by this label. To assess Conceited fairly, look for a consistent pattern across time and situations, consider the surrounding context, and avoid defining someone by a single incident.