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English

Etymology

Latin confidentia > confidere > con- + fidere > fides

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-confidence.ogg


Noun

  1. Self-assurance.
  2. Expression or feeling of certainty.
  3. The quality of trusting.
  4. Information held in secret.


Quotations

  • 1956 — w:Arthur C. Clarke|Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, p 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.


Antonyms

  • (self-assurance): fear


Derived terms


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Translations


de:confidence et:confidence fa:confidence fr:confidence io:confidence id:confidence it:confidence kk:confidence ku:confidence hu:confidence ja:confidence pl:confidence pt:confidence ru:confidence simple:confidence fi:confidence ta:confidence te:confidence vi:confidence zh:confidence

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Confidence \Con"fi*dence\, n. [L. confidentia firm trust in,
self-confidence: cf. F. confidence.]
1. The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in;
trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now
commonly by in.
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Society is built upon trust, and trust upon
confidence of one another's integrity. --South.
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A cheerful confidence in the mercy of God.
--Macaulay.
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2. That in which faith is put or reliance had.
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The Lord shall be thy confidence. --Prov. iii.
26.
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3. The state of mind characterized by one's reliance on
himself, or his circumstances; a feeling of
self-sufficiency; such assurance as leads to a feeling of
security; self-reliance; -- often with self prefixed.
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Your wisdom is consumed in confidence;
Do not go forth to-day. --Shak.
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But confidence then bore thee on secure
Either to meet no danger, or to find
Matter of glorious trial. --Milton.
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4. Private conversation; (pl.) secrets shared; as, there were
confidences between them.
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Sir, I desire some confidence with you. --Shak.
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Confidence game, any swindling operation in which advantage
is taken of the confidence reposed by the victim in the
swindler; several swindlers often work together to create
the illusion of truth; -- also called con game.

Confidence man, a swindler.

To take into one's confidence, to admit to a knowledge of
one's feelings, purposes, or affairs.

Syn: Trust; assurance; expectation; hope.
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I am confident that very much be done. --Boyle.
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2. Trustful; without fear or suspicion; frank; unreserved.
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Be confident to speak, Northumberland;
We three are but thyself. --Shak.
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3. Having self-reliance; bold; undaunted.
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As confident as is the falcon's flight
Against a bird, do I with Mowbray fight. --Shak.
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4. Having an excess of assurance; bold to a fault;
dogmatical; impudent; presumptuous.
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The fool rageth and is confident. --Prov. xiv.
16.
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5. Giving occasion for confidence. [R.]
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The cause was more confident than the event was
prosperous. --Jer. Taylor.
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WordNet confidence
n 1: freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities;
"his assurance in his superiority did not make him
popular"; "after that failure he lost his confidence";
"she spoke with authority" [syn: assurance, self-assurance,
self-confidence, authority, sureness]
2: a feeling of trust (in someone or something); "I have
confidence in our team"; "confidence is always borrowed,
never owned" [ant: diffidence]
3: a state of confident hopefulness that events will be
favorable; "public confidence in the economy"
4: a trustful relationship; "he took me into his confidence";
"he betrayed their trust" [syn: trust]
5: a secret that is confided or entrusted to another; "everyone
trusted him with their confidences"; "the priest could not
reveal her confidences"
Moby Dictionary
acceptation , acception , acquiescence , anticipation , aplomb ,
arcanum , arrogance , aspiration , assumption , assurance ,
assured faith , assuredness , balance , belief , boldness , brashness ,
brass , cabala , certainty , certitude , cheek , cheerful expectation ,
classified information , cocksureness , confidential communication ,
confidentially , confidentness , contemplation , conviction , coolness ,
courage , credence , credit , credulity , crust , dauntlessness ,
dependence , desire , doomed hope , enigma , equability , equanimity ,
equilibrium , esoterica , expectancy , expectation , face ,
fair prospect , faith , fearlessness , fervent hope , gall , good cheer ,
good hope , great expectations , guarded secret , hermetics ,
high hopes , hope , hopeful prognosis , hopefulness , hopes , hoping ,
hoping against hope , hubris , imminence , impudence , in confidence ,
in privacy , intimately , level head , levelheadedness , mettle ,
mystery , mystery of mysteries , nerve , overconfidence , oversureness ,
overweening , overweeningness , personal matter , poise , pomposity ,
positiveness , possession , prayerful hope , presence of mind ,
presumption , pride , private matter , privately ,
privileged communication , privity , probability , profound secret ,
promise , prospect , prospects , reception , reliance , reliance on ,
resolution , restraint , restricted information ,
sanguine expectation , sealed book , secret , security ,
self-assurance , self-command , self-confidence , self-control ,
self-importance , self-possession , self-reliance , self-restraint ,
settled belief , spirit , stock , store , subjective certainty ,
sureness , surety , suspension of disbelief , tenacity , the occult ,
thought , trust , unafraidness , unapprehensiveness , unastonishment ,
unbashfulness , undauntedness , unfearfulness , unfearingness ,
unshrinkingness , unshyness , untimidness , well-grounded hope ,
well-regulated mind


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