Confidante vs Confidence - What's the difference?
confidante | confidence | Related terms |
A female confidant
A type of settee.
*1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 20:
*:Meanwhile, Sally peels herself from the stage's only prop – a green-velvet confidante – and staggers off into the wings.
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Passive self-assurance.
Expression or feeling of certainty.
The quality of trusting.
Information held in secret.
Confidence is a related term of confidante.
As nouns the difference between confidante and confidence
is that confidante is a female confidant while confidence is passive self-assurance.confidante
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(en noun)confidence
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(wikipedia confidence)Noun
(-)Quotations
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author= , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=1citation, passage=But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.}} * 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 39 *: Khedron hesitated for a moment, wondering how far he should take Jeserac into his confidence . He knew that Jeserac was kindly and well-intentioned, but he also knew that he must be bound by the same taboos that controlled everyone on Diaspar.