lack of confidence
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noun
uk/ˈkɒn.fɪ.dəns/us/ˈkɑːn.fə.dəns/
the quality of being certain of your abilities or of having trust in people, plans, or ...
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They often attribute their difficulty in walking to alackofconfidenceor a fear of falling and, not surprisingly, major falls commonly occur.
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These concerns includedlackofconfidencein certification and doubts about the ability to produce sufficient food without synthetic fertilizers and chemicals.
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Additionally, theirlackofconfidencein influencing their own offspring (see below) might have discouraged them from trying to make a difference in civic affairs.
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But given thelackofconfidencewith which any such story can be affirmed, the non-consequentialist cannot choose either option without giving hostages to fortune.
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The 65-79 years age group was reported as being most likely to require assistance because of alackofconfidenceand age/frailty.
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Alternatively, this ' conservative ' behaviour could reflect alackofconfidencein their ' risky ' decisions, perhaps suggesting that reward-reinforcement systems may also be compromised in mania.
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The market could interpret a decision not to join as evidence of the government'slackofconfidencein its own currency.
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Perhaps such relations are mediated by alackofconfidencein one's memory.
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More women than men expressed discomfort with driving,lackofconfidenceand relief when they stopped.
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This assessment shows the significant increase in cases challenging state court verdicts, reflecting thelackofconfidencein electoral institutions at the subnational level.
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Moreover, in primary schools the subject leader will often be addressing an acknowledgedlackofconfidencein teaching music by others whom they will support.
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Second, undecidedness in choosing geographical areas as key positions for identity formation created alackofconfidence.
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Patients express spiritual need with discernible cues such as fear, despair, feeling useless, feeling isolated, andlackofconfidence.
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Its gradual disappearance as a research instrument reflects alackofconfidencein its psychometric properties.
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The removal of autonomy leads to alackofconfidence, and there is evidence to suggest that music teachers no longer trust their own convictions.
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This appeared to be a result of hislackofconfidencein what he had produced.
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As mentioned earlier, children'slackofconfidencemay mediate the relation between suggestibility and age.
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What becomes clear in the survey is "an increasinglackofconfidencein national political institutions" (p. 846).
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Those were heady times, made more acute and often fretful by thelackofconfidencein where things might go.
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That it has taken place initially through religious forms is itself a symptom of self-consciousness'lackofconfidence.
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This produces an acutelackofconfidence.
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Indeed, a distinctlackofconfidenceis exhibited, reflecting perhaps an insecure and uncertain political positioning.
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It was not alackofconfidencein others but his defence against himself.
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