different between positiveness vs confidence

English

Etymology

From positive +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?z?t?vn?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?z?t?vn?s/

Noun

positiveness (countable and uncountable, plural positivenesses)

1. (uncountable) The quality of being positive; positivity. [from 17th c.]
   • 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society 2008, p. 48:

     Nobody knew anything about it although they all spoke with great positiveness and strategical knowledge.

2. (countable) The result of being positive

Antonyms

• negativeness

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

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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).