Confiding vs Confident - What's the difference?
confiding | confident |
The telling of something in confidence.
* 1841 , Absalom Peters, ?Selah B. Treat, The American Eclectic (volume 1, page 141)
very sure of something; positive
self-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is that confiding is the telling of something in confidence while confident is obsolete form of lang=en.As a verb confiding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)Derived terms
* confidinglyNoun
(en noun)- 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)- I'm pretty confident that she's not lying, she's acting normally.