self-confidence
noun
realistic confidence in one's own judgment, ability, power, etc.
self-confident
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a word derived from
self-confidence.
Example Sentences
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The highly self-confident Navarro has always spoken her mind, encouraged by her father and the Sacred Heart nuns who operated her private school in Miami where she still resides.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2026
The plaintive observation, ascribed to the early Victorian British Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne about the acerbically self-confident historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, remains the motto of the thoughtfully skeptical man through the ages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
Both men—Mattis a retired Marine four-star general, Tillerson a former Exxon CEO—were supremely self-confident.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2024
Jam and Lewis helped Janet express a side of her personality – self-confident and in command – that the public had never seen before.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2024
For a littlun he was self-confident, holding out his hands, cradling the conch as Ralph did, looking round at them to collect their attention before he spoke.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
