confidence
Self-assurance.
Example
“He entered the ring with confidence.”
Other meanings
A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith.
“She had confidence it would soon end.”
Information held in secret; a piece of information shared but to thence be kept in secret.
Related words
- honfidence
- inconfidence
- misconfidence
- nonconfidence
- superconfidence
- unconfidence
- underconfidence
- overconfidence
- self-confidence
- confidence interval
- confidence course
- confidence level
Example sentences
Word history
From Old French "confidence".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “confidence” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.