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Confidence vs Convenience - What's the difference?

confidence | convenience |

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

Noun

(-)
  • Passive self-assurance.
  • Expression or feeling of certainty.
  • The quality of trusting.
  • Information held in secret.
  • Quotations

    * {{quote-book, year=2006, author= , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=1 citation , 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 ): fear

    Derived terms

    * confidence interval * confidence level * confidence trick

    convenience

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the quality of being suitable, useful or convenient
  • * Shakespeare
  • Let's further think of this; / Weigh what convenience both of time and means / May fit us to our shape.
  • anything that makes for an easier life
  • * Cowper
  • Thus first Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • A pair of spectacles and several other little conveniences .
    Fast food is popular because of its cost and convenience .
  • a convenient time, especially in the phrase at one's convenience
  • (chiefly, British) a public toilet
  • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * convenience food * convenience store * flag of convenience * marriage of convenience