confidence
pronunciation
How to pronounce confidence in British English:
UK [ˈkɒnfɪdəns]
How to pronounce confidence in American English:
US [ˈkɑːnfɪdəns]
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- Noun:
- freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities
- a feeling of trust (in someone or something)
- a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable
- a trustful relationship
- a secret that is confided or entrusted to another
Word Origin
- confidence (n.)
- early 15c., from Middle French confidence or directly from Latin confidentia, from confidentem (nominative confidens) "firmly trusting, bold," present participle of confidere "to have full trust or reliance," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + fidere "to trust" (see faith). For sense of "swindle" see con (adj.).
Antonym
Example
- 1. Consumer and business confidence is fragile .
- 2. Spain 's banks also face their own confidence crisis .
- 3. Confidence is greater than fear .
- 4. We can say a few things with confidence .
- 5. Measures of business confidence remain strong .