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English
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Etymology
From Middle English confidence, from Latin cōnfīdentia (possibly via Old French confidence), from cōnfīdō (“believe, confide in”) from con- (“with”) + fīdō (“trust”).
Morphologically confide + -ence.
Pronunciation
Noun
confidence (countable and uncountable, plural confidences)
- Self-assurance.
- A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith.
I tell you this in the strictest confidence.
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; a piece of information shared but to thence be kept in secret.
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, , →OCLC, part I, page 201:In the course of these confidences it became quite plain to me I had been represented to the wife of the high dignitary, and goodness knows to how many more people besides, as an exceptional and gifted creature - a piece of good fortune for the Company - a man you don’t get hold of every day.
- (dated) Boldness; presumption.
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self-assurance
- Arabic: ثِقَة f (ṯiqa)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: упэ́ўненасць f (upéŭnjenascʹ), самаўпэ́ўненасць f (samaŭpéŭnjenascʹ)
- Bulgarian: уве́реност (bg) f (uvérenost), самоуве́реност (bg) f (samouvérenost)
- Catalan: confiança (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 自信 (zi6 seon3)
- Mandarin: 信心 (zh) (xìnxīn), 自信 (zh) (zìxìn)
- Czech: sebevědomí (cs) n
- Dutch: zelfvertrouwen (nl)
- Esperanto: memfido
- Finnish: itseluottamus (fi)
- French: assurance (fr), confiance en soi (fr) f
- Galician: confianza f, fiúza 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: ביטחון (he) m (bitakhón), emuná f
- Hindi: विश्वास (hi) m (viśvās)
- Hungarian: magabiztosság (hu)
- Irish: urrúsacht f
- Italian: fiducia (it) f, autostima (it) f, certezza (it) f, sicurezza di sé f
- Japanese: 自信 (ja) (じしん, jishin), 確信 (ja) (かくしん, kakushin)
- Khmer: ទំនុកចិត្ត (tumnuk cət), ទំនុកទុកចិត្ត (tumnuktuk cət)
- Korean: 자신(自信) (ko) (jasin), 확신(確信) (ko) (hwaksin)
- Latin: confīdentia f
- Malay: keyakinan
- Malayalam: ആത്മവിശ്വാസം (ml) (ātmaviśvāsaṁ)
- Maori: māia, māiatanga, ngākau titikaha
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: اعتماد به نفس (fa) (e'temâd be nafs)
- Polish: pewność siebie (pl) f
- 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
- Swedish: självsäkerhet (sv) c
- Tagalog: kumpyansa
- Telugu: నమ్మకము (te) (nammakamu), భరోసా (te) (bharōsā)
- Thai: ความมั่นใจ (th) (kwaam-mân-jai)
- Turkish: kendine itimat, öz güven (tr)
- Ukrainian: впе́вненість (vpévnenistʹ), самовпе́вненість (samovpévnenistʹ)
- Vietnamese: tự tin (vi), sự tự tin (vi), tính tự tin
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expression or feeling of certainty
- Bashkir: ышаныс (ışanıs)
- Bulgarian: сигурност (bg) f (sigurnost)
- Catalan: confiança (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 信任 (zh) (xìnrèn), 信賴/信赖 (zh) (xìnlài), 確定性/确定性 (zh) (quèdìngxìng)
- Czech: jistota (cs) f
- Finnish: luottamus (fi)
- German: Zuversicht (de) f
- Gothic: 𐍄𐍂𐌰𐌿𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 f (trauains)
- Greek: βεβαιότητα (el) f (vevaiótita)
- Hindi: यक़ीन m (yaqīn)
- Hungarian: bizonyosság (hu)
- Italian: fiducia (it) f
- 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)
- Kazakh: сенімшілік (senımşılık)
- Korean: 신임(信任) (ko) (sinim), 신용(信用) (ko) (sinyong), 신뢰(信賴) (ko) (silloe)
- Latin: fīdūcia f
- Maori: māiatanga, ngākau titikaha
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tillit (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: tillit m or f
- Occitan: fisança (oc) f
- Portuguese: certeza (pt) f, convicção (pt) f
- Romanian: siguranță (ro) f
- Russian: уве́ренность (ru) f (uvérennostʹ)
- Spanish: certidumbre f
- Swedish: tilltro (sv) c, tillit (sv) c
- Tocharian B: päkwalñe
- Turkish: itimat (tr) (obsolescent), güven (tr)
- Ukrainian: впе́вненість (vpévnenistʹ)
- Vietnamese: sự tự tin
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cōnfīdentia. Doublet of confiance.
Pronunciation
Noun
confidence f (plural confidences)
- confidence, secret
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