Confidence vs Perseverance - What's the difference?
confidence | perseverance |
Passive self-assurance.
Expression or feeling of certainty.
The quality of trusting.
Information held in secret.
Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.
Persistent determination to adhere to a plan of direction; insistence.
* 2004 , , Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage
As nouns the difference between confidence and perseverance
is that confidence is passive self-assurance while perseverance is continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.confidence
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(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 trickperseverance
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Alternative forms
* perseveraunce (archaic)Noun
(-)- It had taken nine years from the evening that first showed up with a pie plate at her mother's door, but his dogged perseverance eventually won him the hand of his boyhood Sunday school crush.
