different between confidante vs confidence

English

Etymology

From French confidente.

Noun

confidante (plural confidantes)

1. A female confidant.
2. A type of settee having a seat at each end at right angles to the main seats.
   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 20:

     Meanwhile, Sally peels herself from the stage's only prop – a green-velvet confidante – and staggers off into the wings.

Translations

Italian

Verb

confidante

1. present participle of confidare

English

Alternative forms

• confidency (dated)

Etymology

From Latin c?nf?dentia (possibly via Old French confidence), from c?nf?d? (“believe, confide in”) from con- (“with”) + f?d? (“trust”).

Morphologically confide +? -ence.

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?n'f?d?ns, IPA^(key): /?k?nf?d?ns/

Noun

confidence (countable and uncountable, plural confidences)

1. Self-assurance.
2. A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith.
3. Information held in secret; a piece of information shared but to thence be kept in secret.
4. (dated) Boldness; presumption.

Antonyms

• (self-assurance): timidity

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• confidence on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin c?nf?dentia. Doublet of confiance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.fi.d??s/

Noun

confidence f (plural confidences)

1. confidence, secret

Related terms

• confident

References

• “confidence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).