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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"She knows who she is and she is just very at ease with herself and I thought how amazing to be that self-confident, but in a lovely way," said Jones.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
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
Mr. Day-Lewis has emphatically done so, with a strikingly self-confident and gravely realized first feature, “Anemone.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025
Both men—Mattis a retired Marine four-star general, Tillerson a former Exxon CEO—were supremely self-confident.
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2024
In 1990, the year Hall first summitted Everest, the clinic was run by an accomplished, self-confident physician from New Zealand named Jan Arnold.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
