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Confident vs Confidence - What's the difference?

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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is that confident is obsolete form of lang=en while confidence is passive self-assurance.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)
  • very sure of something; positive
  • I'm pretty confident that she's not lying, she's acting normally.
  • self-confident
  • Antonyms

    * (self-confident) insecure, self-destructive

    Synonyms

    * (self-confident) self-assured

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Dryden)
    (South)
    (Webster 1913)

    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