# confidence
## English
### Alternative forms

* confidency (dated)

### Etymology

From Middle English confidence, from Latin cōnfīdentia (possibly via Old French confidence), from cōnfīdō (“believe, confide in”) from con- (“with”) + fīdō (“trust”).
Morphologically confide +‎ -ence.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: kŏn'fĭdəns
** (UK) IPA: /ˈkɒn.fɪ.dəns/
** (US) IPA: /ˈkɑn.fɪ.dəns/
*** Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

confidence (countable and uncountable, plural confidences)
* Self-assurance.
* A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith.
    I tell you this in the strictest 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.
** 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.
** 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.
* 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.
* (dated) 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

#### Translations

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### References

* confidence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cōnfīdentia. Doublet of confiance.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kɔ̃.fi.dɑ̃s/

### Noun

confidence f (plural confidences)
* confidence, secret

#### Related terms

* confident

### Further reading

* “confidence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.