Dictionary

concetto en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /kənˈt͡ʃɛtəʊ/

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian concetto, from Latin conceptus. See conceit and concept, which are doublets.

Meanings

1. Affected wit; a witty turn of phrase; a conceit.
   • Tasso in particular, Mirollo notes, treated the concetto "as the equivalent in a lyric poem of plot in longer works." Pellegrino, similarly, and with reference to Tasso, says that concetti "are the soul and the form of a composition" […] 1997, James Biester, Lyric Wonder: Rhetoric and Wit in Renaissance English Poetry, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 32:
   • But to restrict the concetto to an idea or concept gives short shrift to the metaphorical and sometimes occult implications of the term. Conceit as discors concordia involves the comparison of unlike things, the finding of similarity in dissimilarity. 2006, Vernon Hyde Minor, The Death of the Baroque and the Rhetoric of Good Taste, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 9:

Forms

Deriveds

concettism

Synonyms

conceit