confidence

English

Etymology

From Latin cōnfīdentia (possibly via Old French confidence), from cōnfīdō (“believe, confide in”) from con- (“with”) + fīdō (“trust”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkɒnfɪdəns/
Audio (US) (file)

Noun

confidence (countable and uncountable, plural confidences)

Self-assurance.
A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Psalms 118:8–9:
  It is better to truſt in the Lord : then to put confidence in man. / It is better to truſt in the Lord : then to put confidence in Princes.
- 1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 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.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 1, in Internal Combustion‎:
  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.
Information held in secret.
(dated) Boldness; presumption.

Antonyms

(self-assurance): timidity

Derived terms

Related terms

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<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/confidant' title='confidant'>confidant</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/confidante' title='confidante'>confidante</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/confide' title='confide'>confide</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/confidence' title='confidence'>confidence</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/confident' title='confident'>confident</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/confidential' title='confidential'>confidential</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/diffidence' title='diffidence'>diffidence</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/faith' title='faith'>faith</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/fealty' title='fealty'>fealty</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/federal' title='federal'>federal</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/federation' title='federation'>federation</a>

<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs0 CategoryTreeLabelPage' href='/wiki/fidelity' title='fidelity'>fidelity</a>

Translations

self-assurance

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: самоувереност (bg) f (samouverenost)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 自信 (zi⁶ seon³)

Mandarin: 信心 (zh) (xìnxīn), 自信 (zh) (zìxìn)
Czech: sebevědomí n
Dutch: zelfvertrouwen (nl)
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: itseluottamus (fi)
French: assurance (fr), confiance en soi (fr) f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Selbstgewissheit f (elevated), Selbstvergewisserung f (elevated), Selbstvertrauen (de) n, Zuversicht (de) f
Greek: αυτοπεποίθηση (el) f (aftopepoíthisi)
Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: magabiztosság (hu)
Irish: urrúsacht f
Italian: fiducia (it) f, autostima (it), certezza (it), sicurezza (it) f

Japanese: 自信 (ja) (じしん, jishin), 確信 (ja) (かくしん, kakushin)
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 자신 (ko) (自信, jasin), 확신 (ko) (確信, hwaksin)
Latin: confīdentia f
Malay: keyakinan
Maori: māia, māiatanga
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Persian: اعتماد به نفس‎ (fa) (e'temaad beh nafs)
Portuguese: convicção (pt) f, confiança (pt) f, segurança (pt) f
Romanian: siguranță (ro) f, siguranță de sine f
Russian: уве́ренность (ru) f (uvérennostʹ), самоуве́ренность (ru) f (samouvérennostʹ)
Spanish: certeza (es) f, certeza propia f
Tagalog: kumpyansa
Telugu: నమ్మకము (te) (nammakamu)
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: kendine itimat, öz güven (tr)
Ukrainian: впе́вненість (vpévnenistʹ), самовпе́вненість (samovpévnenistʹ)
Vietnamese: tự tin (vi), sự tự tin, tính tự tin

expression or feeling of certainty

Bulgarian: сигурност (bg) f (sigurnost)
Catalan: confiança (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 信任 (zh) (xìnrèn), 信賴 (zh), 信赖 (zh) (xìnlài), 確定性 (zh), 确定性 (zh) (quèdìngxìng)
Czech: jistota (cs) f
Finnish: luottamus (fi)
German: Zuversicht (de) f
Greek: βεβαιότητα (el) f (vevaiótita)
Hindi: यक़ीन m (yaqīn)
Hungarian: bizonyosság (hu)
Japanese: 信用 (ja) (しんよう, shin'yō), 信頼 (ja) (しんらい, shinrai), 信任 (ja) (しんにん, shinnin)
Korean: 신임 (ko) (信任, sinim), 신용 (ko) (信用, sinyong), 신뢰 (ko) (信賴, silloe)

Latin: fīdūcia f
Maori: māiatanga
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tillit (no) m or f

Nynorsk: tillit m or f
Portuguese: certeza (pt) f, convicção (pt) f
Romanian: siguranță (ro) f
Russian: уве́ренность (ru) f (uvérennostʹ)
Spanish: certidumbre f
Turkish: itimat (tr) (obsolescent), güven (tr)
Ukrainian: впе́вненість (vpévnenistʹ)
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

quality of trusting

Bulgarian: вяра (bg) f (vjara), доверие (bg) n (doverie)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 信任 (zh) (xìnrèn), 信賴 (zh), 信赖 (zh) (xìnlài), 確定性 (zh), 确定性 (zh) (quèdìngxìng)
Czech: důvěra (cs) f
Danish: fortrolighed c
Dutch: vertrouwen (nl)
Finnish: luottamus (fi)
French: confiance (fr) f
German: Vertrauen (de) n, Zutrauen n
Greek: εμπιστοσύνη (el) f (empistosýni)

Hungarian: bizalom (hu)
Italian: fiducia (it) f
Korean: 확실함 (ko) (確實함, hwaksilham), 확실성 (ko) (確實性, hwaksilseong)
Latin: fīdūcia f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tillit (no) m or f

Nynorsk: tillit m or f
Portuguese: confiança (pt) f, confidência (pt) f
Spanish: confidencia (es) f
Turkish: itimat (tr) (obsolescent), güven (tr)

information held in secret

Bulgarian: поверително съобщение (poveritelno sǎobštenie)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 心裡話 (zh), 心里话 (zh) (xīnlihuà), 秘密 (zh) (mìmì)
Czech: důvěrnost f, tajemství (cs) n
Finnish: luottamuksellinen tieto
French: confidence (fr) f
German: Vertraulichkeit f
Greek: απόρρητο (el) n (apórrito)

Hungarian: bizalmasság (hu)
Italian: confidenza (it)
Japanese: 打ち明け話 (うちあけばなし, uchiakebanashi), 秘密 (ja) (ひみつ, himitsu)
Korean: 비밀 (ko) (祕密, bimil), 속내 (ko) (songnae)
Portuguese: confidência (pt) f
Romanian: confidență (ro) f
Spanish: confidencia (es) f
Turkish: samimiyet (tr), teklifsizlik (tr)

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Translations to be checked

Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} ביטחון‎ (he) m (bit'akhon) (2, 3)

Slovene: (1) ^{(please verify)} samozavest f, (3) ^{(please verify)} zaupanje (sl) n

References

confidence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cōnfīdentia. Doublet of confiance.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fi.dɑ̃s/

Noun

confidence f (plural confidences)

confidence, secret

References

“confidence” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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