self-assured
adjective
self-assuredness
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a word derived from
self-assured.
Example Sentences
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It takes gumption to walk away from a lucrative job and grit to build a startup, but don’t mistake those qualities for self-assuredness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
His first trip to India on the hippie trail and each subsequent trip there has humbled his self-assuredness, he says.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2025
She keeps her hair simple and a bit uncontrolled, which contributes to a sense of self-assuredness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2024
There's a self-assuredness that, presumably, comes from being a professional actress on adult-run sets for half of her life.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2023
He was only twelve then, but he could have been twenty-two: his quick-fire intelligence was already being cooled by gravity, the brittle self-assuredness of adolescence already annealing into the self-confidence of adulthood.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
