different between confidence vs dependance

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).

English

Noun

dependance (countable and uncountable, plural dependances)

1. (archaic) dependence
   • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathon, Chapter 5

     Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependance of one fact upon another...

   • 1672, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 6th edition, book 3, chapter 12:

     More veniable is a dependance upon the Philosophers stone, potable gold, or any of those Arcana's whereby Paracelsus that died himself at forty seven, gloried that he could make other men immortal.

2. Misspelling of dependence.

Italian

Alternative forms

• dépendance

Etymology

French. Doublet of dipendenza.

Noun

dependance f (invariable)

1. outbuilding