confidence

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɒn.fɪ.dəns/    美 /ˈkɑn.fɪ.dəns/|/ˈkɔn.fɪ.dəns/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Self-assurance. countable,uncountable
    — He entered the ring with confidence.
  2. A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith. countable,uncountable
    — She had confidence it would soon end.
  3. Information held in secret; a piece of information shared but to thence be kept in secret. countable,uncountable
    — In the course of these confidences it became quite plain to me I had been represented to the wife of the high dignitary, and goodness knows to how many more people besides, as an exceptional and gifted creature - a piece of good fortune for the Company - a man you don’t get hold of every day.
  4. Boldness; presumption. countable,dated,uncountable

词形变化

confidences plural confidency alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

反义词
timidity shyness bashfulness insecurity
衍生词
confidence and supply confidence artist confidence course confidence game confidence interval confidence level confidence limits confidence man confidence motion confidence trick confidence trickster confidence vote e-confidence honfidence inconfidence in confidence misconfidence motion of confidence motion of no confidence no-confidence motion no-confidence vote nonconfidence overconfidence self-confidence superconfidence unconfidence underconfidence vote of confidence vote of no confidence

词源

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