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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confidence |
| Synonyms: | assurance, belief, credence, credit, dependence, faith, hope, interdependence, interdependency, stock, trust |
| Antonyms: | disbelief, independence |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
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