overconfidence
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From over- + confidence.
Noun
[edit]overconfidence (usually uncountable, plural overconfidences)
- An excessive or unwarranted degree of confidence.
- 1890 February, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Sherlock Holmes Gives a Demonstration”, in The Sign of Four (Standard Library), London: Spencer Blackett […], →OCLC, page 89:
- My case is, as I have told you, almost complete; but we must not err on the side of over-confidence.