rare. [f. Sp. concepto = concept, conceit, concetto + -ISM. Cf. Sp. conceptista one who employs conceptos or concetti.] In Spanish Literature, The employment of conceptos, a characteristic Spanish form of conceits or concetti, in literary composition; Spanish CONCETTISM.
1887. A. Morel-Fatio, in Encycl. Brit., XXII. 360/1. Conceptism is the name that has been given to this [Quevedo’s] refinement of thought, which was doomed in time to fall into the ambiguous and equivocal. Baltasar Gracian in 1642 published his Agudeza y Arte de Ingenio, in which all the subtleties of conceptism are very exactly reduced to a code.
