self-doubt
noun
lack of confidence in the reliability of one's own motives, personality, thought, etc.
self-doubting
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a word derived from
self-doubt.
Example Sentences
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Wilson’s Sarah is heroic, particularly given her self-doubting nature and quasi-maternal motives, but Thompson makes Zoë, for all her failings and regrets, an instant icon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025
Georgie said her win meant everything, after having always been so self-doubting.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2024
En route to a team crisis, Zuzu shows herself to be self-doubting yet resilient: At one point, in a piquant mysterious touch, she seems to grow fangs.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 23, 2022
Has the self-doubting hero of “Insecure” finally made peace with her insecurities?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2022
His eyes, sad, penetrating, doubting,—yet self-doubting, too,—searched her very soul.
From From the Ranks by Charles King
