Confidence vs Convenience - What's the difference?
confidence | convenience |
Passive self-assurance.
Expression or feeling of certainty.
The quality of trusting.
Information held in secret.
the quality of being suitable, useful or convenient
* Shakespeare
anything that makes for an easier life
* Cowper
* Jonathan Swift
a convenient time, especially in the phrase at one's convenience
(chiefly, British) a public toilet
As nouns the difference between confidence and convenience
is that confidence is passive self-assurance while convenience is the quality of being suitable, useful or convenient.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 trickconvenience
English
(wikipedia convenience)Noun
(en noun)- Let's further think of this; / Weigh what convenience both of time and means / May fit us to our shape.
- Thus first Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs
- A pair of spectacles and several other little conveniences .
- Fast food is popular because of its cost and convenience .