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Confiding vs Confident - What's the difference?

confiding | confident |

As adjectives the difference between confiding and confident

is that confiding is in confidence; as if with trust while confident is very sure of something; positive.

As nouns the difference between confiding and confident

is that confiding is the telling of something in confidence while confident is obsolete form of lang=en.

As a verb confiding

is present participle of lang=en.

confiding

English

Verb

(head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • In confidence; as if with trust.
  • Derived terms

    * confidingly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The telling of something in confidence.
  • * 1841 , Absalom Peters, ?Selah B. Treat, The American Eclectic (volume 1, page 141)
  • We see Washington by the fireside, upon the farm, amid the interchanges of friendship and ordinary confidings , and as a citizen, as well as in the sphere of military contest, in the senate, or as a diplomatist

    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)