confidence

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: kŏn'fĭdəns, IPA^(key): /ˈkɒnfɪdəns/

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Noun

confidence (countable and uncountable, plural confidences)

1. Self-assurance.
2. A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith.
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   • 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^[1]:

     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.

3. Information held in secret.
4. (dated) Boldness; presumption.

Antonyms

• (self-assurance): timidity

Derived terms

• confidence interval
• confidence level
• confidence trick
• overconfidence
• self-confidence

 

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 (cs) 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) f, certezza (it) f, sicurezza (it) f
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• 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) (jasin) (自信 (ko)), 확신 (ko) (hwaksin) (確信 (ko))
• 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: ความมั่นใจ (th) (kwaam-mân-jai)
• 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

• Bashkir: ышаныс (ışanıs)
• Bulgarian: сигурност (bg) f (sigurnost)
• Catalan: confiança (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 信任 (zh) (xìnrèn), 信賴／信赖 (zh) (xìnlài), 信赖 (zh) (xìnlài), 確定性／确定性 (zh) (quèdìngxìng), 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)
• Kazakh: сенімшілік (senımşılık)
• Korean: 신임 (ko) (sinim) (信任 (ko)), 신용 (ko) (sinyong) (信用 (ko)), 신뢰 (ko) (silloe) (信賴 (ko))
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• 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／信赖 (zh) (xìnlài), 信赖 (zh) (xìnlài), 確定性／确定性 (zh) (quèdìngxìng), 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)
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• Hungarian: bizalom (hu)
• Italian: fiducia (it) f
• Korean: 확실함 (ko) (hwaksilham) (確實함), 확실성 (ko) (hwaksilseong) (確實性 (ko))
• 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／心里话 (zh) (xīnlihuà), 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)
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• 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) (bimil) (祕密 (ko)), 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)
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• Slovene: (1) ^{(please verify)} samozavest f, (3) ^{(please verify)} zaupanje (sl) n

References

• confidence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cōnfīdentia. Doublet of confiance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fi.dɑ̃s/

Noun

confidence f (plural confidences)

1. confidence, secret

References

• “confidence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.