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confidence - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | confidence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in oneself |
| Synonyms: | aplomb, assurance, backbone, boldness, certainty, cool, courage, daring, dash, determination, firmness, fortitude, grit, hardihood, heart, impudence, mettle, morale, nerve, pluck, poise, presumption, reliance, resolution, self-possession, spirit, spunk, tenacity, brashness, elan, faith in oneself, fearlessness, intrepidity, resoluteness, self-reliance, sureness |
| Antonyms: | uncertainty, unconfidence |
| Main Entry: | confidence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in something |
| Synonyms: | assurance, credence, faith, hope, reliance, stock, store, trust, dependence, sure bet |
| Antonyms: | apprehension, distrust, doubt, fear, uncertainty, unconfidence |
| Main Entry: | brass |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impulsiveness; nerve |
| Synonyms: | assumption, audacity, cheek*, chutzpah*, confidence, effrontery, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence, presumption, rudeness, brashness |
| Antonyms: | caution, prudence, carefulness, circumspection |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | credence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trust, acceptance |
| Synonyms: | admission, assurance, belief, certainty, confidence, credit, faith, reliance, stock, store, accepting, admitting, dependence |
| 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: | encouragement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, support |
| Synonyms: | advance, advocacy, aid, animation, assistance, backing, boost, cheer, comfort, confidence, consolation, easement, faith, favor, firmness, fortitude, helpfulness, hope, incentive, incitement, inspiration, optimism, promotion, refreshment, relief, reward, softening, stimulation, stimulus, succor, supporting, trust, urging, consoling, enlivening, inspiritment, invigoration, reassurance, reassuring, relieving, shot in the arm, solacing |
| Antonyms: | denunciation, derision, deterrent, discouragement |
| Main Entry: | equanimity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | levelheadedness |
| Synonyms: | aplomb, assurance, calm, calmness, composure, confidence, cool, coolness, detachment, patience, peace, poise, presence of mind*, sangfroid, self-possession, serenity, ataraxia, ataraxy, equability, imperturbability, phlegm, placidity, steadiness, tranquillity |
| Antonyms: | agitation, alarm, anxiety, upset, worry, discomposure, excitableness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | expectancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anticipation |
| Synonyms: | assumption, assurance, belief, calculation, confidence, conjecture, expectation, hope, likelihood, outlook, prediction, presentation, presentiment, presumption, probability, prospect, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspense, trust, view, looking forward, 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, motive, notion, outlook, possibility, prediction, presumption, probability, promise, prospect, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspense, trust, view, looking forward |
| Main Entry: | gall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nerve, brashness |
| Synonyms: | acrimony, animosity, arrogance, bitterness, brass, cheek*, chutzpah*, conceit, confidence, effrontery, guts*, haughtiness, hostility, impertinence, impudence, insolence, malevolence, malice, pomposity, presumption, rancor, self-importance, spite, venom, brazenness, crust cynicism, overbearance, sauciness |
| Antonyms: | modesty, shyness, reservations |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | honesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | truthfulness, candidness |
| Synonyms: | candor, confidence, conscientiousness, equity, fairness, faithfulness, fidelity, frankness, goodness, honor, integrity, loyalty, morality, principle, probity, rectitude, responsibility, right, self-respect, sincerity, soundness, uprightness, veracity, virtue, bluntness, evenhandedness, genuineness, impeccability, incorruptibility, justness, openness, outspokenness, plainness, reputability, scrupulousness, straightforwardness, straightness, trustiness, trustworthiness |
| Antonyms: | artifice, cheating, deceit, deception, dishonesty, duplicity, falsehood, fraud, lying, treachery, fraudulence |
| Main Entry: | hope |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | longing; dream |
| Synonyms: | Utopia, achievement, ambition, anticipation, aspiration, assumption, belief, bright side, buoyancy, castles in air, concern, confidence, daydream, dependence, desire, endurance, expectancy, expectation, faith, fancy, fool's paradise, fortune, gain, goal, greedy glutton, hopefulness, light at end of tunnel, optimism, pipe dream*, promise, promised land*, prospect, reliance, reverie, reward, rosiness, sanguineness, security, stock, thing with feathers, wish |
| Antonyms: | despair, disbelief, discouragement, hopelessness, pessimism |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | information |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | facts, news |
| Synonyms: | advice, ammo, break*, chapter and verse*, clue, confidence, counsel, cue, data, dirt*, dope*, dossier, earful, enlightenment, erudition, illumination, info, inside story, instruction, intelligence, knowledge, leak, learning, lore, lowdown, material, message, network, notice, notification, orientation, propaganda, report, science, scoop, score, tidings, tip, what's what, whole story, wisdom, word* |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intimacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | closeness between people |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, affection, affinity, communion, confidence, experience, familiarity, friendship, understanding, close relationship, confidentiality, inwardness |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, incompatibility |
| Main Entry: | nerve |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | daring, boldness |
| Synonyms: | assumption, assurance, audacity, backbone, brass*, bravery, cheek*, chutzpah*, confidence, coolness, courage, crust*, determination, effrontery, endurance, energy, face*, firmness, force, fortitude, gall*, grit*, guts*, hardihood, heart*, impertinence, impudence, insolence, intestinal fortitude, mettle, might, moxie*, pluck*, presumption, resolution, sauce*, spirit, spunk*, starch*, stomach*, temerity, vigor, will, brazenness, fearlessness, gameness, hardiness, intrepidity, steadfastness |
| Antonyms: | fear, modesty, shyness, timidity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | optimism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of having positive beliefs |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, assurance, brightness, buoyancy, calmness, certainty, cheer, cheerfulness, confidence, easiness, elation, encouragement, enthusiasm, exhilaration, expectation, happiness, rose-colored glasses*, trust, good cheer, hopefulness, idealism, looking on bright side, positivism, sanguineness, sureness |
| Antonyms: | doubt, gloom, pessimism, hopelessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | poise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | self-composure, dignity |
| Synonyms: | address, aplomb, assurance, balance, bearing, calmness, confidence, cool, coolness, diplomacy, elegance, equanimity, equilibrium, grace, gravity, polish, presence, presence of mind, sangfroid, savoir faire, self-assurance, self-possession, serenity, tact, tranquility, delicatesse, equability, stasis, tactfulness |
| Antonyms: | excitedness |
| Main Entry: | secrecy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | concealment |
| Synonyms: | confidence, dark, darkness, hiding, hush, isolation, mystery, privacy, reticence, seclusion, silence, solitude, stealth, suppression, clandestineness, confidentiality, covertness, furtiveness, retirement, secretiveness, secretness, surreptitiousness |
| Antonyms: | honesty, publicity, revelation, forthrightness, openness |
| Main Entry: | secret |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something kept hidden, unrevealed |
| Synonyms: | cipher, classified information, code, confidence, enigma, formula, key, mystery, occult, oracle, password, puzzle, unknown, confidential information, magic number, privileged information, skeleton in cupboard |
| Antonyms: | known, revelation, public knowledge |
| Main Entry: | self-respect/self-esteem |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pride in oneself |
| Synonyms: | conceit, confidence, dignity, morale, self-assurance, self-satisfaction, vanity, worth, amour-propre, egotism, faith in oneself, narcissism, self-content, self-regard |
| Antonyms: | uncertainty, self-doubt |
| Main Entry: | sex appeal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sexual attractiveness |
| Synonyms: | allure, animal magnetism, appeal, attraction, charisma, charm, confidence, enchantment, glamour, lure, magnetism, pizzazz, presence, pull, attractiveness, drawing power, it, it, seductiveness, sexiness, sexual magnetism, star power |
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