confidence [kon-fi-duhns]
Main Entry:
confidence [kon-fi-duhns]
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: 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: brass
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: impulsiveness; nerve
Synonyms: assumption, audacity, brashness, cheek, chutzpah*, confidence, effrontery, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence, presumption, rudeness
Antonyms: carefulness, caution, circumspection, prudence
Main Entry: certainty
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: positive assurance
Synonyms: all sewn up, authoritativeness, belief, certitude, cinch, confidence, conviction, credence, definiteness, dogmatism, faith, firmness, indubitableness, inevitability, lock*, lockup, open and shut case, positiveness, positivism, rain or shine, setup, shoo-in, staunchness, steadiness, stock, store, sure bet, sure thing, surefire, sureness, surety, trust, validity, wrap-up
Notes: certitude is a measure of a person's positive feeling about something; certainty is a measure of the degree to which a process or development may be realized
Antonyms: ambiguity, doubt, hesitation, questionableness, uncertainty
Main Entry: cheek
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: audacity, boldness
Synonyms: brashness, brass, brazenness, chutzpah*, confidence, disrespect, effrontery, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence, lip, nerve*, presumption, rudeness, sauce, temerity
Antonyms: humbleness, meekness, timidity
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
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
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