different between confidence vs cocksure
confidence
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)
- Self-assurance.
- A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith.
- Information held in secret; a piece of information shared but to thence be kept in secret.
- (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)
- confidence, secret
Related terms
- confident
References
- “confidence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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cocksure
English
Alternative forms
- cock-sure
Etymology
Probably from cock +? sure, early 16th c.
Adjective
cocksure (comparative more cocksure, superlative most cocksure)
- (informal) too confident; overconfident
- 1716, Alexander Pope, letter to the Earl of Burlington
- I thought myself cocksure of his horse, which he readily promis'd me.
- Cocksure certainty is the source of much that is worst in our present world, and it is something of which the contemplation of history ought to cure us, not only or chiefly because there were wise men in the past, but because so much that was thought wisdom turned out to be folly – which suggests that much of our own supposed wisdom is no better. I do not mean to maintain that we should lapse into a lazy scepticism. We should hold our beliefs, and hold them strongly. Nothing great is achieved without passion, but underneath the passion there should always be that large impersonal survey which sets limits to actions that our passions inspire.
- 1716, Alexander Pope, letter to the Earl of Burlington
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cocksure From the web:
- what is cocksure synonym
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