Confidence vs Cocksure - What's the difference?
confidence | cocksure |
Passive self-assurance.
Expression or feeling of certainty.
The quality of trusting.
Information held in secret.
(informal) too confident; overconfident
* 1906 , John Galsworthy,
*1920 , Sinclair Lewis, The Main Street ,
*:These crack specialists, the young scientific fellows, they're so cocksure and so wrapped up in their laboratories that they miss the human element.
As a noun confidence
is passive self-assurance.As an adjective cocksure is
(informal) too confident; overconfident.confidence
English
(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.
Antonyms
* (self-assurance ): fearDerived terms
* confidence interval * confidence level * confidence trickcocksure
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I thought myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me. — Alexander Pope.
- The persistence of the Past is one of those tragicomic blessings which each new age denies, coming cocksure on to the stage to mouth its claim to a perfect novelty.