| Main Entry: | reliance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confidence |
Synonyms: |
assurance, belief, credence, credit, dependence, faith, hope, interdependence, interdependency, stock, trust |
Antonyms: |
disbelief, independence |
| Main Entry: | belief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | putting regard in as true |
Synonyms: |
acceptance, admission, assent, assumption, assurance, avowal, axiom, certainty, conclusion, confidence, conjecture, conviction, credence, credit, deduction, divination, expectation, faith, fancy, feeling, guess, hope, hypothesis, idea, impression, intuition, judgment, knowledge, mind, mindset, notion, opinion, persuasion, position, postulation, presumption, presupposition, profession, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspicion, theorem, theory, thesis, thinking, trust, understanding, view |
Antonyms: |
disbelief |
| Main Entry: | confidence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in oneself |
Synonyms: |
aplomb, assurance, backbone, boldness, brashness, certainty, cool, courage, daring, dash, determination, elan, faith in oneself, fearlessness, firmness, fortitude, grit, hardihood, heart, impudence, intrepidity, mettle, morale, nerve, pluck, poise, presumption, reliance, resoluteness, resolution, self-possession, self-reliance, spirit, spunk, sureness, tenacity |
Antonyms: |
uncertainty, unconfidence |
| Main Entry: | confidence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in something |
Synonyms: |
assurance, credence, dependence, faith, hope, reliance, stock, store, sure bet, trust |
Antonyms: |
apprehension, distrust, doubt, fear, uncertainty, unconfidence |
| Main Entry: | conviction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, opinion |
Synonyms: |
confidence, creed, doctrine, dogma, eye, faith, feeling, judgment call, mind, persuasion, principle, reliance, say so, sentiment, slant, tenet, view |
| Main Entry: | conviction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | guilty sentence; assurance |
Synonyms: |
assuredness, certainty, certitude, condemnation, condemning, confidence, determining guilt, earnestness, fall, fervor, firmness, rap, reliance, sureness, surety, unfavorable verdict |
Antonyms: |
overturning |
| Main Entry: | credence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trust, acceptance |
Synonyms: |
accepting, admission, admitting, assurance, belief, certainty, confidence, credit, dependence, faith, reliance, stock, store |
| Notes: | something is credible to the extent that it is worthy of belief, so that credibility is worthiness of belief; credence is an acknowledgment of such worthiness |
Antonyms: |
distrust, faithlessness |
| Main Entry: | credit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | recognition; trust |
Synonyms: |
Brownie points, acclaim, acknowledgment, approval, attention, belief, commendation, confidence, credence, distinction, faith, fame, glory, honor, kudos*, merit, notice, pat on the back, points, praise, reliance, strokes, thanks, tribute |
Antonyms: |
disacknowledgement, disapproval, disbelief, disclaimer, discredit, dishonor, disregard, disrespect |
| Main Entry: | expectancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anticipation |
Synonyms: |
assumption, assurance, belief, calculation, confidence, conjecture, expectation, hope, likelihood, looking forward, outlook, prediction, presentation, presentiment, presumption, probability, prospect, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspense, trust, view, waiting |
| Main Entry: | expectation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, anticipation |
Synonyms: |
apprehension, assumption, assurance, calculation, chance, confidence, conjecture, design, expectancy, fear, forecast, hope, intention, likelihood, looking forward, motive, notion, outlook, possibility, prediction, presumption, probability, promise, prospect, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspense, trust, view |