underconfidence
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
under- + confidence
Noun[edit]
underconfidence (uncountable)
- Insufficient confidence.
- 2008 January 25, David Brooks, “Two Cheers for Wall St.”, in New York Times[1]:
- The cycle of overconfidence becomes a cycle of underconfidence because nobody knows who is holding worthless paper.