Confident vs Confidence - What's the difference?
confident | confidence | Related terms |
very sure of something; positive
self-confident
Passive self-assurance.
Expression or feeling of certainty.
The quality of trusting.
Information held in secret.
Confidence is a related term of confident.
As nouns the difference between confident and confidence
is that confident is obsolete form of lang=en while confidence is passive self-assurance.As an adjective confident
is very sure of something; positive.confident
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I'm pretty confident that she's not lying, she's acting normally.
Antonyms
* (self-confident) insecure, self-destructiveSynonyms
* (self-confident) self-assuredExternal links
* * ----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.