English Explanatory Dictionary

confidence

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Self-assurance.
  2. A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith.
  3. Information held in secret; a piece of information shared but to thence be kept in secret.
  4. Boldness; presumption.

Pronunciation

kŏn'fĭdəns /ˈkɒn.fɪ.dəns/ /ˈkɑn.fɪ.dəns/ en-us-confidence.ogg

Word forms

confidence confidences confidency

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.

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

Albanian: besueshmëria Bulgarian: вяра Bulgarian: доверие Chinese Mandarin: 信任 Chinese Mandarin: 信賴 /信赖 Chinese Mandarin: 確定性 /确定性 Czech: důvěra Danish: fortrolighed Dutch: vertrouwen Finnish: luottamus French: confiance Galician: confianza Galician: fiúza German: Vertrauen German: Zutrauen Greek: εμπιστοσύνη Hindi: विश्वास Hungarian: bizalom Italian: fiducia Korean: 확실(確實)함 Korean: 확실성 Latin: fīdūcia Māori: whakamanawatanga Norwegian Bokmål: tillit Norwegian Nynorsk: tillit Portuguese: confiança Portuguese: confidência Spanish: confidencia Swedish: tilltro Swedish: tillit Turkish: itimat Turkish: güven
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