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unconfidence

unconfidence noun: absence of confidence; uncertainty; doubt.

Noun

unconfidence (uncountable)

  1. Absence of confidence; uncertainty; doubt.
    • I think what we see here is a spiral of unconfidence because by listening to you, reporters and mass media people, I sense that you do not have a strong confidence about what you report and you don't have confidence to tell the government what to do .1991, Carolina G. Hernandez, Werner Pfennig, Media and Politics in Asia, page 202
    • But feelings of confidence and unconfidence are essential guides to our cognitive efforts.2005, Carl Bereiter, Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age, page 113
  2. The complement of confidence; the probability that something is not the case.
    • Obviously If P ( Hᵢ / E ) > P ( Hᵢ) then we can say that by evidence E the confidence of H by the expert is increased and at the same time the unconfidence of Hᵢ is decreased.1988, International Conference on Computer-Aided Production Engineering, page 556

Origin of unconfidence

From un- + confidence.

Questions about unconfidence

What does unconfidence mean?
Unconfidence means absence of confidence; uncertainty; doubt.
What part of speech is unconfidence?
Unconfidence is a noun.

Words near unconfidence in the dictionary

  1. unconfessable
  2. unconfessed
  3. unconfesses
  4. unconfessing
  5. unconfided
  6. unconfidence
  7. unconfident
  8. unconfidential
  9. unconfidently
  10. unconfiding
  11. unconfigurable

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