self-assurance
noun[U]
approvinguk/ˌself.əˈʃɔː.rəns/us/ˌself.əˈʃʊr.əns/C2
confidencethat you have inyourownabilities:
She’s anextrovertwhoexudesself-assurance.
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self-assured
- With all the self-assurance ofyouth, hefelthe would just take abreak, thenstartanotherband.
- When the 45-year-oldsteppedto themicrophone, heexudedself-assurance.
- Given thestrengthand self-assurance of Pearce'swork, it's hard toimagineanyonedeliveringa moreeffective, oraffecting,performance.
- Tobelievemore in theapplausethan in thepolls, that is asignof self-assurance.
- Self-assurance does notguaranteewisdom.
Confidence & self-assurance
- amour propre
- aplomb
- assertive
- assertively
- assertiveness
- dignity
- dogmatic
- dogmatically
- dogmatism
- dogmatist
- putyourshirt onsomethingidiom
- rakish
- rakishly
- rakishness
- safe
- surely
- swag
- swash
- tall
- to be sureidiom