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Confidence vs Guts - What's the difference?

confidence | guts |

As nouns the difference between confidence and guts

is that confidence is passive self-assurance while guts is .

confidence

English

(wikipedia 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

    Related terms

    * confidant * confidante * confident * confidential * self-confidence

    guts

    English

    (wikipedia guts)

    Noun

    (head)
  • The entrails or contents of the abdomen.
  • (slang) Courage; determination.
  • :* It must have taken some guts to speak in front that audience.
  • :* She doesn't take any nonsense from anyone—she's got guts .
  • (slang) Content, substance.
  • :* His speech had no guts in it.

    • Synonyms

    * (entrails) entrails, guttings, innards, insides, viscera * (courage) balls, nerve, pluck, big balls

    Verb

    (es)
  • (informal) To show determination or courage (especially in the combination guts out ).
    • He gutsed out a 6-1 win.

    Anagrams

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