confidence

Meanings

Plural: confidences

Noun

• freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities
  • "after that failure he lost his confidence"
• a feeling of trust (in someone or something)
  • "I have confidence in our team"
  • "confidence is always borrowed, never owned"
• a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable
  • "public confidence in the economy"
• a trustful relationship
  • "he took me into his confidence"
• a secret that is confided or entrusted to another
  • "everyone trusted him with their confidences"
  • "the priest could not reveal her confidences"
• Self-assurance.
• A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith.
• Information held in secret; a piece of information shared but to thence be kept in secret.
• Boldness; presumption.

Synonyms

assurance, authority, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness, trust

Antonyms

bashfulness, diffidence, insecurity, shyness, timidity