confidence
UK/ˈkɒn.fɪ.dəns//ˈkɑn.fɪ.dəns/
confidence noun: self-assurance.
Noun
confidence (countable and uncountable, plural confidences)
- Self-assurance.
- He entered the ring with confidence.
- A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith.
- She had confidence it would soon end.
- I reposed a great deal of confidence in his judgment.
- Information held in secret; a piece of information shared but to thence be kept in secret.
- 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.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
- Boldness; presumption.
confidence meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
confidence in Hindi
- quality of trusting
- विश्वास viśvās
- self-assurance
- विश्वास viśvās, आत्मविश्वास ātmaviśvās, भरोसा bharosā
- expression or feeling of certainty
- विश्वास viśvās, भरोसा bharosā
confidence in Tamil
- தன்னம்பிக்கை, தன்னுறுதி, தற்சார்புணர்வு, நம்பிக்கை, பற்றுறுதி, மந்தணம்
confidence in Marathi
- confidence
- खात्री khātrī
confidence in Urdu
- confidence, trust
- اعتماد i'timād, یقین yaqīn
- confidence
- وشواس viśvās
More languagesFewer languages
- confidence in Bengali
- আস্থা astha
- confidence in Telugu
- నమ్మకము nammakamu, భరోసా bharōsā
- confidence in Malayalam
- ആത്മവിശ്വാസം ātmaviśvāsaṁ
- confidence in Kannada
- ನಂಬಿಕೆ, ನಂಬುಗೆ, ಅಂಕೆ, ನೆಮ್ಮುಗೆ
- confidence in Punjabi
- ਯਕ਼ੀਨ yaqīn
- confidence in Gujarati
- વિશ્વાસ viśvās
- confidence in Sanskrit
- विश्वास viśvāsa, प्रतिपत्ति pratipatti
- confidence in Nepali
- आत्मविश्वास
- confidence in Tagalog
- kumpyansa, kumpidensiya, segurado
- confidence in Arabic
- ثِقَة ṯiqa
- confidence in Malay
- keyakinan
- confidence in Persian
- اعتماد به نفس e'temâd be nafs
- confidence in Thai
- ความมั่นใจ kwaam-mân-jai
- confidence in Vietnamese
- tự tin, sự tự tin, tính tự tin
Examples of confidence in a sentence
- 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.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 118:8–9:
- Khedron hesitated for a moment, wondering how far he should take Jeserac into his confidence.1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 39:
Antonyms of confidence
Forms of confidence
| plural | confidences |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | confidency |
Origin of confidence
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.
Words formed from confidence
- 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
Phrases with confidence
- confidence men
- confidence games
- confidence votes
- confidence levels
- confidence tricks
- confidence artists
- confidence courses
- confidence motions
- votes of confidence
- confidence intervals
- confidence tricksters
- motions of confidence
2 more phrasesFewer phrases
Questions about confidence
- What does confidence mean?
- Confidence means self-assurance.
- What is confidence in Hindi?
- Confidence in Hindi is विश्वास (viśvās), भरोसा (bharosā), आत्मविश्वास (ātmaviśvās). See Confidence meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use confidence in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is confidence?
- Confidence is a noun.
- How do you pronounce confidence?
- Confidence is pronounced /ˈkɒn.fɪ.dəns/ (UK).
- What is the plural of confidence?
- The plural of confidence is confidences.
Words near confidence in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: confidence (page history and authors); confidence (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); खात्री (Marathi) (page history and authors); اعتماد (Urdu) (page history and authors); আস্থা (Bengali) (page history and authors); confidence (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਯਕ਼ੀਨ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); વિશ્વાસ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); प्रतिपत्ति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); confidence (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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