self-distrust

[ self-dis-truhst, self- ]

noun

1. lack of confidence in oneself, in one's abilities, etc.

Other Words From

• self-dis·trustful adjective
• self-dis·trusting adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of self-distrust¹

First recorded in 1780–90

Example Sentences

Her natural temper indeed tended to a rash self-confidence rather than to self-distrust.

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Deeper, more sickening than death, the first faintness of self-distrust came over me.

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Every novel of the past ten years has been more or less a study in sentiment and self-distrust.

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Self-distrust is more to be dreaded than foreign interference or Rebel despotism.

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There are two things in Scripture which I have never been able to think of without strong movements of fear and self-distrust.

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