confidence

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a secret that is confided or entrusted to another

   Everyone trusted us with their confidences.

2. 2
   noun

   a feeling of trust (in someone or something)

   I have confidence in our team

3. 3
   noun

   a trustful relationship

   They took me into their confidence.

4. 4
   noun

   a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable

   public confidence in the economy

5. 5
   noun

   Self-assurance.

   He entered the ring with confidence.

6. 6
   noun

   A feeling of certainty; firm trust or belief; faith.

   She had confidence it would soon end.

7. 7
   noun

   Information held in secret; a piece of information shared but to thence be kept in secret.

   In the course of these confidences it became quite plain to me I had been represented to the wife of the high dignitary, and goodness knows to how many more people besides, as an exceptional and gifted creature - a piece of good fortune for the Company - a man you don’t get hold of every day.

8. 8
   noun

   freedom from doubt

Etymology

From Middle English confidence, from Latin cōnfīdentia (possibly via Old French confidence), from cōnfīdō (“believe, confide in”) from con- (“with”) + fīdō (“trust”). By surface analysis, confide + ence.