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Definition: Self-assurance |
Self-assuranceNoun1. Freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities; "his assurance in his superiority did not make him popular"; "after that failure he lost his confidence"; "she spoke with authority". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "self-assurance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
Synonyms: Self-assuranceSynonyms: assurance (n), authority (n), confidence (n), self-confidence (n), sureness (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Self-assurance |
| English words defined with "self-assurance": assertiveness ♦ coolness ♦ imperturbability, imperturbableness ♦ self-assertiveness. (references) |
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| "Self-assurance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Self-assurance" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 32 | 61,292 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "self-assurance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vetëbesim (assurance, overconfidence, self confidence, self esteem, self sufficiency, self-importance). (various references) | |
Arabic | الثقة بالنفس (self confident). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | самоувереност (aplomb, assurance, assuredness, boldness, cool, panache, poise, self confidence). (various references) | |
Chinese | 自信 (self-assured, self-confidence, self-confident). (various references) | |
Czech | sebejistota (confidence). (various references) | |
Dutch | zelfbewustheid (aplomb, self-confidence, self-reliance), gewicht (aplomb, concern, weight), aplomb (aplomb). (various references) | |
Esperanto | aplombo (aplomb). (various references) | |
Faeroese | sjálvsálit (aplomb, self-confidence, self-reliance). (various references) | |
French | aplomb. (various references) | |
German | Sicherheit (aplomb, assurance, caution, certainty, certitude, certitudes, collateral, competence, confidence, firmness, guaranty, immunity, reliability, safeness, safety, secureness, security, steadiness, sureness, surety), selbstbewusstsein (ego, poise, self confidence, self consciousness, self-awareness, self-importance), Aplomb (aplomb). (various references) | |
Greek | αυτοπεποίθηση (confidence, self confidence, self-assertion, self-confidence, self-reliance). (various references) | |
Hungarian | magabiztosság (assertiveness, cock-sureness, confidence, nerve, panache, self-assertion, self-confidence). (various references) | |
Italian | sicurezza di sé (confidence), fiducia in se stesso (self confidence). (various references) | |
Manx | hene-barrantys (self-confidence), daanys (boldness, cheek, cockiness, confidence, daring, effrontery, resolution, rudeness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | elf-assurancesay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | segurança (assuredness, certainty, coverage, dependability, dependence, dependency, reliability, salvation, security, shelter), presunção (airs, arrogance, assumption, assurance, conceit, concetto, coxcombry, daring, pragmatism, presumption, pretension, puppyism, self-conceit, self-importance, self-sufficiency, self-support, surmise, swagger, swank, vainglory, vanity), confiança em si mesmo (self-assertion, self-reliance), autoconfiança (self-reliance). (various references) | |
Romanian | siguranţã de sine (confidence), aplomb (assurance, cheek, coolness, impudence, self possession). (various references) | |
Russian | самоуверенность (assurance, assuredness, boldness, overconfidence, self confidence, self-confidence). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | samopouzdanje (aplomb, assertiveness, self confidence). (various references) | |
Spanish | seguridad en sí mismo (self confidence, self sufficiency). (various references) | |
Swedish | självsäkerhet (aplomb, assurance, self confidence, self-assuredness, self-assureness), självmedvetande. (various references) | |
Turkish | kendine güven (aplomb, assertiveness, assuredness, confidence, ego, self confidence, self sufficiency, self-reliance), kendinden emin olma. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | самвпевненість. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự tự tin (aplomb, self-confidence), lòng tự tin (self-confidence). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-f-l-n-r-s-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: carefulness. | |
-3 letters: assurances, casualness. | |
-4 letters: anacruses, ancresses, assurance, causeless, ceruleans, cesareans, cleansers, clearness, cruelness, falseness, farnesses, feasances, fulnesses, nucleases, surceases. | |
-5 letters: anureses, arsenals, caesurae, caesural, caesuras, careless, caresses, caseases, casernes, censures, censuses, cerulean, cesarean, classers, cleaners, cleanser, cleanses, cureless, euclases, faceless, fearless, feasance, fernless, flaneurs, flensers, fracases, fresnels, funerals, funereal, furnaces, fuseless, lacunars, lucarnes. | |
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