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[syn: assurance, self-assurance, confidence, self-confidence, authority, sureness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Self-confidence \Self`-con"fi*dence\, n.
The quality or state of being self-confident; self-reliance.
[1913 Webster]
A feeling of self-confidence which supported and
sustained him. --Beaconsfield.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
self-confidence
n 1: freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities;
"his assurance in his superiority did not make him
popular"; "after that failure he lost his confidence"; "she
spoke with authority" [syn: assurance, self-assurance,
confidence, self-confidence, authority, sureness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "self-confidence":
aplomb, arrogance, assurance, assuredness, balance, belief,
boastfulness, certitude, cockiness, cocksureness, conceit,
confidence, confidentness, conviction, courage, equability,
equanimity, equilibrium, face, faith, haughtiness, hubris,
independence, level head, levelheadedness, overconfidence,
oversureness, overweening, overweeningness, pardonable pride,
poise, pomposity, positiveness, possession, presence of mind,
pride, pridefulness, proudness, purse-pride, restraint,
sanguineness, security, self-assurance, self-command,
self-consequence, self-control, self-esteem, self-importance,
self-possession, self-reliance, self-respect, self-restraint,
self-sufficiency, settled belief, stiff-necked pride,
stiff-neckedness, subjective certainty, sureness, surety, trust,
vanity, well-regulated mind