confidence

Meaning

Noun

• 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.

Related

Opposite words

• timidity

Origin

• From Middle English confidence, from Latin cōnfīdentia (possibly via Old French confidence), from cōnfīdō from con- + fīdō.
• Morphologically confide + -ence.