confidence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English confidence, from Latin cōnfīdentia (possibly via Old French confidence), from cōnfīdō (“believe, confide in”) from con- (“with”) + fīdō (“trust”).
By surface analysis, confide + ence.
Inflected forms:
form: confidences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: confidency
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Self-assurance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He entered the ring with confidence.
gloss: A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She had confidence it would soon end.
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.
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.
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.
gloss: Information held in secret; a piece of information shared but to thence be kept in secret.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Boldness; presumption.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
Antonyms: timidity
shyness
bashfulness
insecurity
Derived words: 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:
lang: Albanian
word: besueshmëria
lang: Bulgarian
word: вяра
roman: vjara
lang: Bulgarian
word: доверие
roman: doverie
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 信任
roman: xìnrèn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 信賴 /信赖
roman: xìnlài
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 確定性 /确定性
roman: quèdìngxìng
lang: Czech
word: důvěra
lang: Danish
word: fortrolighed
lang: Dutch
word: vertrouwen
lang: Finnish
word: luottamus
lang: French
word: confiance
lang: Galician
word: confianza
lang: Galician
word: fiúza
lang: German
word: Vertrauen
lang: German
word: Zutrauen
lang: Greek
word: εμπιστοσύνη
roman: empistosýni
lang: Hindi
word: विश्वास
roman: viśvās
lang: Hungarian
word: bizalom
lang: Italian
word: fiducia
lang: Korean
word: 확실(確實)함
roman: hwaksilham
lang: Korean
word: 확실성
roman: hwaksilseong
lang: Latin
word: fīdūcia
lang: Māori
word: whakamanawatanga
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: tillit
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: tillit
lang: Portuguese
word: confiança
lang: Portuguese
word: confidência
lang: Spanish
word: confidencia
lang: Swedish
word: tilltro
lang: Swedish
word: tillit
lang: Turkish
word: itimat
lang: Turkish
word: güven