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Self-assurance

Definition: Self-assurance

Self-assurance

Noun

1. 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-assurance

Synonyms: assurance (n), authority (n), confidence (n), self-confidence (n), sureness (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Self-assurance

English words defined with "self-assurance": assertivenesscoolnessimperturbability, imperturbablenessself-assertiveness. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Self-assurance

DomainTitle

Books

  • Concrete Confidence: A 30-Day Program for an Unshakable Foundation of Self-Assurance (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Self-assurance

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3261,292

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Self-assurance

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.

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Anagrams: Self-assurance

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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