1. Freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities
   "after that failure he lost his confidence"; "his self-confidence in his superiority did not make him popular";
   - assurance, self-assurance, self-confidence, authority, sureness
    
2. A feeling of trust (in someone or something)
   "I have confidence in our team"; "confidence is always borrowed, never owned"
    
3. A state of confident hopefulness that events will be favourable
   "public confidence in the economy"
    
4. A trustful relationship
   "he took me into his confidence";
   - trust
    
5. A secret that is confided or entrusted to another
   "everyone trusted him with their confidences"; "the priest could not reveal her confidences"

Derived forms: confidences

See also: certain, confident, diffident, incertain [non-standard], shy, sure, timid, uncertain, unconfident, unsure

Type of: certainty, friendly relationship, friendship, hopefulness, mateship [Austral, NZ], secret, security

Antonym: diffidence

Encyclopedia: Confidence, Illinois