Confidence vs Intelligence - What's the difference?
confidence | intelligence |
Passive self-assurance.
Expression or feeling of certainty.
The quality of trusting.
Information held in secret.
(uncountable) Capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to learn and comprehend.
* 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
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, title= (countable) An entity that has such capacities.
* Tennyson
(uncountable) Information]], usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile [[activity, activities.
(countable) A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.
(dated) Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.
* Clarendon
As nouns the difference between confidence and intelligence
is that confidence is passive self-assurance while intelligence is (uncountable) capacity of mind, especially to understand principles, truths, facts or meanings, acquire knowledge, and apply it to practice; the ability to learn and comprehend.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 trickintelligence
English
(wikipedia intelligence)Noun
- Not so, however, with Tarzan, the man-child. His life amidst the dangers of the jungle had taught him to meet emergencies with self-confidence, and his higher intelligence resulted in a quickness of mental action far beyond the powers of the apes.
Ian Sample
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- The great Intelligences fair / That range above our mortal state, / In circle round the blessed gate, / Received and gave him welcome there.
- He lived rather in a fair intelligence than any friendship with the favourites.
