lack of self-confidence

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self-confidence
noun[U]
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/ˌselfˈkɒn.fɪ.dəns/us
/ˌselfˈkɑːn.fə.dəns/
the belief that you can do things well and that other people ...
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Three subscales were derived : emotional reliance on another person,lackofself-confidenceand assertion of autonomy.
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I believe that that is why the excellent forces we have are feeling thislackofself-confidence.
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He gives us a picture of timidity andlackofself-confidencewhich we are sure is not really true.
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For some 20 years, throughout the 1960s and 1970s, we suffered from introspection, economic decline and alackofself-confidence.
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If it does so forbid its citizens, that is a mark of a substantiallackofself-confidencein the merits of the country concerned.
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For a party which believes that it is liberating itself from a minority status, that shows a certainlackofself-confidence.
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Along with a lack of experience, there naturally is alackofself-confidence.
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The one thing that we have to fear is ourlackofself-confidence.
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That shows a monumentallackofself-confidence.
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I do not know whether that is a manifestation of alackofself-confidencein the country.
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If they have one weakness, it is more to do with their initiallackofself-confidencethan with discrimination by others.
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On these occasions, too, there was perhaps ground for a certainlackofself-confidencein our approach to entry because of our economic weakness.
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I believe thatlackofself-confidenceis unfounded.
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We are puzzled why a change in the political status of former colonies should create an apparentlackofself-confidence.
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With them are a sense of reaction, alackofself-confidence, but a sense of pride.
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We know their reasons for smoking—for example, puberty andlackofself-confidence.
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I am not saying that it has done so out of wickedness; it was out of alackofself-confidence.
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That leads to alackofself-confidenceand self-esteem.
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I deeply deplore thatlackofself-confidence.
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Loneliness andlackofself-confidenceare common causes of inadequate parenting.
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