confidence
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#CONFIDENCECategory:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰeydʰ-#CONFIDENCEFrom Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#CONFIDENCECategory:English terms derived from Middle English#CONFIDENCE confidence, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#CONFIDENCE cōnfīdentia (possibly via Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#CONFIDENCE confidence), from cōnfīdō (“believe, confide in”) from con- (“with”) + fīdō (“trust”).
By surface analysis, confide + ence.
Pronunciation
Noun
confidence (countable and uncountable, plural confidences)Category:English lemmas#CONFIDENCECategory:English nouns#CONFIDENCECategory:English uncountable nouns#CONFIDENCECategory:English countable nouns#CONFIDENCECategory:English countable nouns#CONFIDENCECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CONFIDENCECategory:Pages with entries#CONFIDENCECategory:Pages with 2 entries#CONFIDENCE
- Self-assurance.
- He entered the ring with confidence.Category:English terms with usage examples#CONFIDENCE
- A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith.
- She had confidence it would soon end.Category:English terms with usage examples#CONFIDENCE
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 118:8–9:
- It is better to truſt in the Lord : then to put confidence in man. / It is better to truſt in the Lord : then to put confidence in Princes.Category:English terms with quotations#CONFIDENCE
- 1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 39:
- Khedron hesitated for a moment, wondering how far he should take Jeserac into his confidence. He knew that Jeserac was kindly and well-intentioned, but he also knew that he must be bound by the same taboos that controlled everyone on Diaspar.Category:English terms with quotations#CONFIDENCE
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion:
- But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.Category:English terms with quotations#CONFIDENCE
- Information held in secret; a piece of information shared but to thence be kept in secret.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 201:
- In the course of these confidences it became quite plain to me I had been represented to the wife of the high dignitary, and goodness knows to how many more people besides, as an exceptional and gifted creature - a piece of good fortune for the Company - a man you don’t get hold of every day.Category:English terms with quotations#CONFIDENCE
- (datedCategory:English dated terms#CONFIDENCE) Boldness; presumption.
Antonyms
- (antonym(s) of “self-assurance”): timidity, shyness, bashfulness, insecurity
Derived terms
- confidence and supply
- confidence artist
- confidence course
- confidence game
- confidence interval
- confidence level
- confidence limits
- confidence man
- confidence motion
- confidence trick
- confidence trickster
- confidence vote
- e-confidence
- honfidence
- inconfidence
- in confidence
- misconfidence
- motion of confidence
- motion of no confidence
- no-confidence motion
- no-confidence vote
- nonconfidence
- overconfidence
- self-confidence
- superconfidence
- unconfidence
- underconfidence
- vote of confidence
- vote of no confidence
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Translations
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References
confidence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Etymology
Borrowed from LatinCategory:French terms borrowed from Latin#CONFIDENCECategory:French terms derived from Latin#CONFIDENCE cōnfīdentia. Doublet of confianceCategory:French doublets#CONFIDENCE.
Pronunciation
Noun
confidence f (plural confidences)Category:French lemmas#CONFIDENCECategory:French nouns#CONFIDENCECategory:French countable nouns#CONFIDENCECategory:French entries with incorrect language header#CONFIDENCECategory:French feminine nouns#CONFIDENCECategory:Pages with entries#CONFIDENCECategory:Pages with 2 entries#CONFIDENCE
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Further reading
- “confidence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012